{"id":126677,"date":"2019-04-25T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-cati-marketing.pantheonsite.io\/abaqus-explicit-2019-now-supports-c3d10-tetrahedral-elements\/"},"modified":"2022-04-20T16:48:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T20:48:53","slug":"abaqus-explicit-2019-now-supports-c3d10-tetrahedral-elements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cati.com\/?p=126677","title":{"rendered":"Abaqus\/Explicit 2019 Now Supports C3D10 Tetrahedral Elements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caelynx.com\/product\/abaqus\/\">Abaqus\/Explicit<\/a> has long required second-order tetrahedral elements to be of the C3D10M (the \u2018M\u2019 stands for modified) element type. This has now changed \u2014 <strong>true second-order C3D10 elements are available<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<h4>C3D10 elements in Abaqus\/Explicit:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Are true quadratic elements (\u201cmodified\u201d elements are a special case of \u201cnumerical composite\u201d)<\/li>\n<li>Are higher accuracy than their first-order, linear (C3D4) counterparts<\/li>\n<li>Are higher accuracy than their \u201cmodified\u201d (C3D10M) counterparts<\/li>\n<li>Are recommended over C3D10M by Dassault Syst\u00e8mes<\/li>\n<li>Have a bigger stable time increment than C3D10M<\/li>\n<li>Are computationally less expensive than C3D10M<\/li>\n<li>Support all the same loadings, material behaviors, and boundary conditions as do the existing solid continuum elements (C3D8R, C3D10M, C3D6, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Are also supported in STD-to-XPL and XPL-to-XPL import<\/li>\n<li>Are not supported with selective subcycling<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3223 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/s33.png\" alt=\"Abaqus\/Explicit\" width=\"937\" height=\"606\" \/>Stress Test: Comparing Element Formulations<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3224 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/c3d10_incr.png\" alt=\"Abaqus\/Explicit\" width=\"716\" height=\"463\" \/><br \/>\nStress Test: Stable Time Increment<\/p>\n<h3>Abaqus 2020 is now available!<\/h3>\n<p>See our release blog post to learn <a href=\"https:\/\/caelynx.com\/abaqus-2020-is-now-available\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">what&#8217;s new in Abaqus 2020 and how to download<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abaqus\/Explicit has long required second-order tetrahedral elements to be of the C3D10M (the \u2018M\u2019 stands for modified) element type. 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