Who is this Introduction to Abaqus course designed for?

This course is designed for engineers, designers, analysts, and technical users who are new to Abaqus or want a structured foundation in Abaqus/CAE. No previous Abaqus experience is required, although basic familiarity with finite element analysis is helpful.

What practical Abaqus skills will participants develop?

Participants will learn how to build Abaqus models, define materials and sections, create assemblies, apply loads and boundary conditions, generate meshes, set up contact, submit analysis jobs, and review simulation results using Abaqus/CAE, Abaqus/Standard, and Abaqus/Explicit.

How can the training be customized for our engineering team?

ENA2 can customize Abaqus training based on your team’s experience level, project needs, preferred schedule, and technical focus areas. Customized sessions can emphasize topics such as nonlinear analysis, contact, meshing, materials, Abaqus/Standard, Abaqus/Explicit, or workflow best practices.

How hands-on is the course?

The course combines lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on workshops. These exercises help participants apply the concepts covered in class and gain practical experience creating, running, and troubleshooting Abaqus analyses.

What if our team needs focused training on specific Abaqus topics?

For team-based training, ENA2 can adjust the lecture focus and workshop emphasis to match your organization’s goals. If your team needs more time on contact, nonlinear analysis, meshing, results interpretation, or a specific Abaqus workflow, please contact ENA2 to discuss a customized training plan.

Abaqus/Explicit: Advanced Topics

Advanced impact, contact, and failure simulation

Abaqus/Explicit: Advanced Topics Training

This 3-day Abaqus/Explicit Advanced Topics training course helps engineers and analysts build practical skills for nonlinear dynamic simulation, impact analysis, general contact, quasi-static analysis, material damage, failure modeling, and large model management.

The course uses industrial application examples to reinforce advanced Abaqus/Explicit workflows and is recommended for Abaqus users who want to improve their ability to run, troubleshoot, and evaluate explicit analyses with confidence.

duration

24 Hours / 3 Days

Level

Advanced

Location

Online, Hybrid, or In-Person

Course Objectives

The topics discussed include the following.

COURSE CONTENTS

1

Overview of Abaqus/Explicit
2

Elements
3

Contact Modeling
4

Quasi-Static Analyses
5

Constraints and Connections
6

Impact and Postbuckling Analyses
7

Material Damage and Failure

8

Importing and Transferring Results
9

Managing Large Models
10

Output Filtering
A1

Explicit Dynamics Algorithm
A2

Contact Pairs
A3

Co-simulation

Knowledge Prerequisites

Introduction to Abaqus or equivalent.

Abaqus/Explicit Advanced Topics FAQ

Who is this advanced Abaqus/Explicit course designed for?

This course is designed for engineers, analysts, CAE users, and simulation teams who already have basic Abaqus experience and want to develop stronger Abaqus/Explicit skills for nonlinear dynamic, impact, contact, quasi-static, and failure simulations.

What advanced Abaqus/Explicit topics are covered?

Participants work with advanced topics such as explicit dynamics, general contact, output filtering, mass scaling, quasi-static analysis, impact and postbuckling behavior, material damage and failure, large model management, result transfer, and co-simulation.

How is this course different from Introduction to Abaqus?

Introduction to Abaqus focuses on foundational modeling and analysis workflows. This advanced course focuses specifically on Abaqus/Explicit techniques used for complex nonlinear dynamic events, contact-heavy simulations, high-rate deformation, failure modeling, and advanced explicit analysis control.

What practical skills will participants develop?

Participants will learn how to set up, run, troubleshoot, and evaluate advanced Abaqus/Explicit analyses. The course emphasizes practical decision-making for contact behavior, mass scaling, element selection, output filtering, model size, result transfer, and interpretation of explicit simulation results.

How can the course be customized for our team?

ENA2 can customize the course based on your team’s applications, preferred dates, experience level, and technical priorities. Customized sessions can focus on impact, crash, drop test, postbuckling, failure, material damage, contact, quasi-static analysis, or specific Abaqus/Explicit workflows.

What delivery options are available?

Training can be delivered online, hybrid, or in person in Calgary, Alberta. For engineering teams, ENA2 can also arrange custom training dates and focused lecture content to better match project schedules and internal learning goals.