Abaqus to Radioss Conversion Mapping

Elements

Table 1. Supported Element Mappings

Abaqus (Explicit)	Radioss
B31	BEAM3N
C3D10M	/BRICK
C3D4	/BRICK
C3D6	/BRICK
C3D8R	/BRICK
C3D10	TETRA10
C3D10I	TETRA10
S3R	/SH3N
S4R	/SHELL
SC8R	/BRICK
SC6R	/PENTA6
R3D3	/SH3N + /RBODY
R3D4	/SHELL + /RBODY
MASS	/ADMAS
M3D4R/M3D3	/PROP/SHELL

Properties

Table 2. Supported Property Mappings

Abaqus (Explicit)	Radioss
*BEAM GENERAL SECTION	P3_BEAM
BEAM SECTION	/PROP/INT_BEAM
*SOLID_SECTION and *CONTROL_SECTION	/PROP/SOLID
*SHELL_SECTION and *CONTROL_SECTION	/PROP/SHELL or PROP/TSHELL
*RIGIDBODY	PROP/SHELL or /PROP/SOLID
*MASS	/ADMAS
*SHELL SECTION COMPOSITE	/PROP/TSH_COMP(P22_TSH_COMP)
SPRING(Nonlinear)	P4_SPRING

Materials

Table 3. Supported Material Mappings

Abaqus (Explicit)	Radioss
ELASTIC, ISOTROPIC	/MAT/ELASTIC
PLASTIC, ISOTROPIC	/MAT/PLAS_TAB
Hyperelastic, Mooney, Rivlin	MAT/OGDEN
Hyperelastic, Ogden	MAT/OGDEN
PLASTIC,JOHNSON COOK	M2PLAS_JOHN_ZERIL
HYPERELASTIC,MARLOW	/MAT/LAW70
HYPERFOAM, VISCOELASTIC	/MAT/LAW62
*HYPERELASTIC Neo Hookean	/MAT/LAW41
*HYPERELASTIC	/MAT/LAW93
*SUPERELASTIC	/LAW71
*LOW DENSITY FOAM	//MAT/LAW70
*EOS, TYPE=USUP	/EOS/POLYNOMIAL

Functions

Table 4. Supported Function Mappings

Abaqus (Explicit)	Radioss
*AMPLITUDE	/FUNCT, /MOVE_FUNCT

Groups

Table 5. Supported Group Mappings

Abaqus (Explicit)	Radioss
*NSET	/GRNOD
*ELSET	/GSHEL, /GRSH3N, /GRBRIC
*SURFACE	/GRNOD, /SURF

Loads

Table 6. Supported Load Mappings

Abaqus (Explicit)	Radioss
*BOUNDARY	/IMPDISP, /IMPVEL, /IMPACC, /BCS
*INITIAL CONDITION	/INIVEL
*CLOAD	/CLOAD
*DLOAD	/PLOAD
*DSLOAD	/PLOAD
*INTIAL VELOCITY TYPE=ROTATION	/INVEL/AXIS

Contacts

Table 7. Supported Contact Mappings

Abaqus (Explicit)	Radioss
*TIED, *CONTACT_CLEARANCE, *SURFACE_INTERACTION	/INTER/TYPE2
*CONTACT_CLEARANCE, *SURFACE_INTERACTION	/INTER/TYPE7
CONTACT INCLUSIONS,ALL ELEMENT	TYPE24
*CONTACT PAIR	/INTER/TYPE24
GENERAL CONTACT	TYPE24 or TYPE25

Constraints

Table 8. Supported Constraint Mappings

Abaqus (Explicit)	Radioss
*COUPLING(DISTRIBUTED) TYPE=NODE	RBE3
*COUPLING (KINEMATIC)	RBE2
*COUPLING KINEMATIC, *COUPLING DYNAMIC	/RBE2, /RBE3
*MPC BEAM
	/RBODY

Output Blocks

Table 9. Supported Output Block Mappings

Abaqus (Explicit)	Radioss
*STEP, STEP NAME	/TITLE and /RUN
*DYNAMIC, T_period	/TSTOP
*VARIABLE MASS SCALING	/DT/NODA/CST
*OUTPUT FIELD	/ANIM/DT, /ANIM/VECT/(ACC, VEL, DISP, FINT, PCONT), /ANIM/BRICK/TENS/(STRESS,STRAIN) /ANIM/SHELL/TENS/(STRESS,STRAIN), /ANIM/ELEM/(VONMISES, PRESSURE,EPSP, ENER, DENS)
*OUTPUT HISTORY	/TFILE, /TH/NODE, /TH/SHEL, /TH/SH3N, /TH/BEAM, /TH/BRIC