The ABAQUS translator

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The FEMGEN to ABAQUS interface has been updated. This includes updates for ABAQUS 5.8 features and various bug fixes and developments following users requests, as follows:

- Added following elements:-

New Frame elements (BE2s: FRAME2D,FRAME3D)

• New axisymmetric coupled temperature-displacement elements with twist (CGAX*)
• New distributing coupling elements (P-ELs: DCOUP2D,DCOUP3D)
• Rigid beams (RB2D2,RB3D2; and RAX2)
• Generalised plane strain elements (CGPE*)
• - Allow for model titles up to 240 characters.
• - Corrected wrong face ID mapping for tet elements, given in contact surface definitions.
• - Set names created for elemental loads now have 9 characters. (These are based on part names and thus 8 character part names are not truncated).
• - Process physical properties for rigid elements, frame elements.
• - Process DISTRIBUTING COUPLING from PROPERTY BOUNDERY GENERAL command.
• - Process kinematic coupling constraint from PROPERTY BOUNDERY MPC RBEAM.
• - Process generalised plane strain elements and boundary conditions (including PRESCRIBED and LOAD DISPLACE) applied to their extra nodes.
• - Allow for the Lanczos eigensolver in *BUCKLE and *FREQUENCY.
• - Increased precision when outputting initial temperature data.
• - Increased precision when outputting local co-ordinate systems.
• - Parameter MONOTONIC in *STEP is now replaced by EXTRAPOLATION.
• - Default static and dynamic output requests take into account frame elements.
• - Use edge loading data for elemental loads in PreAbaqus. Take into account any additional part given in the elemental load.
• - Support of beam orientation via a FG point.
• - Increased limit in the number of contact surfaces from 200 to 1000.
• - Re-define the element face if the surface was flipped.
• - Added a comma to the contact node set definition.
• - Make sure all the constraints are checked.
• The FEMGEN to ABAQUS version number is 4.401.

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