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- Introduction
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- Version control
*ACTIVATE_ELEMENTS
- Activation and deactivation of elements
- Strength of elements prior to activation
*ADD_MASS
- Rotating discs
*BC_MOTION
- Activation and deactivation
- Prescribed rotational motions
- Prescribed translational motions
- Rotational constraints in local coordinate systems
- Rotational constraints in the global coordinate system
- Translational constraints in a local coordinate systems
- Translational constraints in the global coordinate system
*BC_PERIODIC
- Cyclic symmetry
*BC_SYMMETRY
- Rigid wall
- Symmetry in local coordinate systems
- Symmetry in the global coordinate system
*BC_TELEPORT
- Displacements and velocities in the global coordinate system
- Multiple teleportations using trigger function
- Rotations in a local coordinate system
*BC_TEMPERATURE
- All features
- One-dimensional heat conduction
*CFD_DETONATION
- Detonation radius
*CFD_DOMAIN
- Airblast propagation
- Airblast propagation with restart
- CFD-FE-SPH Coupling
*CHANGE_P-ORDER
- Cantilever beams
- Domain of higher order elements
- Higher order elements
*CHANGE_PART_ID
- Elements inside a geometry
- Included files
*COMPONENT_BOLT
- Defined in global and local coordinate systems
- Positioning with table
*COMPONENT_BOX
- Defined in global and local coordinate systems
*COMPONENT_BOX_IRREGULAR
- Defined in global and local coordinate systems
*COMPONENT_CYLINDER
- Defined in global and local coordinate systems
*COMPONENT_PIPE
- Defined in global and local coordinate systems
*COMPONENT_REBAR
- Bending
- Defined in global and local coordinate systems
*COMPONENT_SPHERE
- Defined in global and local coordinate systems
*CONNECTOR_DAMPER
- Axially loaded damper
*CONNECTOR_GLUE_LINE
- Combined stress
- Normal stress
- Shear stress
*CONNECTOR_GLUE_SURFACE
- Combined stress
- Normal stress
- Shear stress
*CONNECTOR_RIGID
- Connection in motion
*CONNECTOR_SPOT_WELD
- Combined stress
- Normal stress
- Shear stress
*CONNECTOR_SPOT_WELD_NODE
- Normal stress
*CONNECTOR_SPR
- Combined stress
- Normal stress
- Shear stress
*CONNECTOR_SPRING
- Intrinsic operations (dnorm, dnorm_min, dnorm_max)
- Linear springs
- Nonlinear springs
- State file output
*CONTACT
- Contact and friction forces between all element types
- Continue from state-file
- Expanding spheres
- Friction work to heat
- Newtons cradle
- Vickers hardness test
*CONTACT_ACCURACY
- Accuracy edge
- Accuracy level
*CONTACT_REBAR
- Contact between rebars and elements
*COORDINATE_SYSTEM
- Position
*COORDINATE_SYSTEM_CYLINDRICAL
- Transform mesh
*COORDINATE_SYSTEM_FIXED
- Positioning test & transform mesh
*COORDINATE_SYSTEM_FUNCTION
- Coordinate system defined with functions
*COORDINATE_SYSTEM_NODE
- Torque
*CURVE
- Displacements set with curve
*DEFINE_ELEMENT_SET
- Change element type in impact zone
*ELEMENT_SHELL
- Contact
- Volume and mass verification
*ELEMENT_SOLID
- Higher order elements
- Linear elements
*END
- End input
*EOS_GRUNEISEN
- Shock wave test
*EROSION_CRITERION
- Element erosion
- Priority test
*FREQUENCY_CUTOFF
- Testing LOAD_DAMPING - Mass damping
- Testing MAT_METAL - Quasi-static yield stress
*FUNCTION
- Basic functions
- Reaction force from BC MOTION
- Refer to other functions
- Smooth translations
*GEOMETRY_BOX
- Pressure loading
*GEOMETRY_COMPOSITE
- Bc motion
- Load thermal surface
- Pressure loading
*GEOMETRY_EFP
- Particle count
*GEOMETRY_PART
- Pressure loading
*GEOMETRY_PIPE
- Pressure loading
*GEOMETRY_SEED_COORDINATE
- Applied pressure
*GEOMETRY_SEED_NODE
- Applied pressure
*GEOMETRY_SPHERE
- Load pressure in geometry
*INCLUDE
- Offset
- Test 1
*INCLUDE_BINARY
- Simulation continued from .bin
*INITIAL_DAMAGE_RANDOM
- Cubes with random initial damage
- Function to describe defect distribution
*INITIAL_DAMAGE_SURFACE_RANDOM
- Surface with random initial damage
*INITIAL_DISPLACEMENT
- Reposition nodes
*INITIAL_MATERIAL_DIRECTION
- Test 1
*INITIAL_MATERIAL_DIRECTION_PATH
- Material fiber direction split
- Material fiber direction split (multiple elements in thickness direction)
- Test 1
*INITIAL_MATERIAL_DIRECTION_VECTOR
- Surface normal determination
- Test 1
*INITIAL_MATERIAL_DIRECTION_WRAP
- Test 1
*INITIAL_PLASTIC_STRAIN_FUNCTION
- Multiple initial plastic strains
*INITIAL_STATE_HAZ
- Strain in HAZ model
*INITIAL_STATE_WELDSIM
- Strain in WELDSIM model
*INITIAL_STRESS_FUNCTION
- Test 1
*INITIAL_TEMPERATURE
- Thermal plates
*INITIAL_THICKNESS
- Multi-step forming
*INITIAL_VELOCITY
- Cubic element
*LOAD_AIR_BLAST
- Diffraction
- Incident pressure
- Reflection
- Reflective pressure
- Underpressure
*LOAD_CENTRIFUGAL
- Centrifugal forces
*LOAD_DAMPING
- Different element polynomial order
- Mass damping
- Viscous damping
*LOAD_FORCE
- Load on box
*LOAD_FORCE_INTERACT
- Magnetic field
*LOAD_GRAVITY
- Gravity test
- Mass scaling (include and exclude added mass)
*LOAD_PRESSURE
- Load in part geometry
- Load on rigid body
- Load on surface
*LOAD_SHEAR
- All element types
*LOAD_THERMAL_BODY
- All element types
*LOAD_THERMAL_RADIATION
- Cooling plate
- Interaction test
- Temperature dependent specific heat capacity
*LOAD_THERMAL_SURFACE
- All element types
*LOAD_UNDEX
- Geers Hunter
*MAP
- Pressure loaded panel
*MAT_BERGSTROM_BOYCE
- Network A
- Network A and B (alternative 2)
*MAT_CABLE
- Failure model
- Fiber stiffness
*MAT_CERAMIC
- Crushing damage
- Direction of plastic flow
- Pressure-volume relationship
- Spalling damage
- Yield and failure surface
*MAT_CONCRETE_2018
- Compaction curve
- Crushing damage
- Uniaxial tests
- Viscous damping
*MAT_CREEP
- Elastoplasticity
- Viscoelasticity
*MAT_ELASTIC
- Linear elasticity
- Non-linear elasticity
- Non-linear elasticity with damping
*MAT_FABRIC
- Dynamic viscocity
- Fiber properties
- Matrix properties
- Non-linear bulk stiffness
*MAT_FLUID
- Pressure with cap
- Shear resistance
*MAT_FOAM
- Revision test
*MAT_FORMING
- Initial backstress
- Isotropic and kinematic hardening
*MAT_FORMING_R
- Damage softening
- Isotropic and kinematic hardening
- R-values
*MAT_GRANULAR_CAP
- Compaction curve
- Damage
- Damage (cut-off criterion)
- Yield surface
*MAT_HJC_CONCRETE
- Uniaxial compression followed by unloading
*MAT_HSS
- Characteristic element size
- Dynamic softening
- Strength differential and rate parameters
- Temperature dependent elasticity
- Viscosity
- Yield stress
- Yield surface
*MAT_JC
- Quasi-static yield stress
- Strain rate effect
- Thermal softening effect
*MAT_JC_FIELD
- Damage and failure criterion
- Quasi-static yield stress
- Strain rate effect
- Thermal softening effect
*MAT_JH_CERAMIC
- Damage, yield surface and failure surface
- Direction of plastic flow
- Pressure-volume relationship
- Yield and failure surface
*MAT_METAL
- Damage softening
- Decouple rate hardening
- Isotropic and kinematic hardening
- Quasi-static yield stress
- Strain rate effect
- Thermal softening effect
- Yield surface
*MAT_MMC
- Damage
- Direction of plastic flow and bulking cap
- Strain rate effects
- Viscous damping
- Yield and failure surface
*MAT_MM_CONCRETE
- Elements subjected to a variety of stress states
*MAT_MOONEY_RIVLIN
- Elasticity
- Visco-elasticity
*MAT_MULTILAYER_ORTHOTROPIC
- Elasticity (Youngs moduli and Poissons ratios)
- Elasticity (shear moduli)
- Fiber failure criteria
- Strain rate effects
*MAT_ORTHOTROPIC
- Elasticity (Youngs moduli and Poissons ratio)
- Elasticity (shear modulus)
- Fiber failure criteria
- Viscous damping
*MAT_POWDER_BURN
- Interior ballistics
*MAT_REBAR
- Bending stiffness
- Concrete-rebar interface shear resistance as a function of tangential slip
- Damage
- Max shear stress
- Strain rate effect
*MAT_RIGID
- density
*MAT_VISCO_PLASTIC
- Non-linear elasticity
- Plasticity
- Viscosity
*MAT_ZA
- BCC
- FCC
*MERGE
- All element types
- Initial displacements
- Multistep merge
- Parallelism
*MERGE_DUPLICATED_NODES
- Merge and load force
*MERGE_FAILURE_COHESIVE
- Normal stress
- Shear stress
*MERGE_FAILURE_FORCE
- Failure exponents
- Shear and tensile failure
- Shear failure
- Tensile failure
*NODE
- Coordinates
*OUTPUT_CONTACT_FORCE
- Two colliding spheres
*OUTPUT_DEBUG
- User-defined debug information
*OUTPUT_ELEMENT
- Element output
*OUTPUT_FORMING
- Thickness output
*OUTPUT_NODE
- Node output
*OUTPUT_SECTION
- Section radius
- Simply supported beam central load
*OUTPUT_SENSOR
- Sensor output
*OUTPUT_SENSOR_THICKNESS
- Components with varying thickness
- Control rolling process with thickness sensor
*OUTPUT_USER_COLLECTION
- Deforming metal ring
- Revolving bar
*PARAMETER
- Defined and redefined parameters
*PARAMETER_DEFAULT
- Parameter order
*PART
- Element erosion
- Smoothing
*PARTICLE_DETONATION
- Detonation geometry ID
- Detonation radius
- Radial detonation path
- Subdomain limit
*PARTICLE_DOMAIN
- Binomial distribution
- Convergence test
*PARTICLE_DOMAIN_CLEANUP
- Deactivate particles
- repeat parameter
*PARTICLE_HE
- Static overpressure
*PARTICLE_SOIL
- Sand slug impact
*PATH
- Impetus module
*PETRIFY
- Bouncing ball with and without petrify
*PRESTRESS_BLIND_HOLE_BOLT
- Aligned bolts
*PRESTRESS_BOLT
- Bolt assembly
- Double bolt
- Single bolt
*PROP_DAMAGE_BRITTLE
- Criterion test
*PROP_DAMAGE_CL
- Brittle criterion test
- Ductile criterion test
*PROP_DAMAGE_CL_0_45_90
- Criterion test (global coordinate system)
- Criterion test (local coordinate system)
*PROP_DAMAGE_CL_ANISOTROPIC
- Criterion test (global coordinate system)
- Criterion test (local coordinate system)
*PROP_DAMAGE_CL_REGULARIZE
- Regularize feature
*PROP_DAMAGE_GOLDTHORPE
- Criterion test
*PROP_DAMAGE_HC
- Brittle criterion test
- Ductile criterion test (triaxiality, Lode parameter and thermal dependency)
*PROP_DAMAGE_IMP
- Criterion test
*PROP_DAMAGE_IMP_ISO
- Criterion test
*PROP_DAMAGE_JC
- Criterion test (minimum failure strain)
- Criterion test (triaxiality, strain rate and thermal dependency)
*PROP_DAMAGE_STRAIN
- Criterion test
*PROP_SPOT_WELD
- Normal stress
*PROP_THERMAL
- Heat conduction
*REDISTRIBUTE_MESH_CARTESIAN
- Polynomial and exponential mesh redistribution
*REFINE
- Refine pipe
*REMAP
- Elastic rod
*RIGID_BODY_ADD_NODES
- Rigid box guiding beam
*RIGID_BODY_DAMPING
- Damping between moving and constrained body
*RIGID_BODY_INERTIA
- Rolling cylinders
*RIGID_BODY_JOINT
- Ability to handle rotations
- Conservation of energy
- Torsional spring
*RIGID_BODY_MERGE
- Test 1
*RIGID_BODY_UPDATE
- Curvlinear update
- Linear update
*SCRIPT_PYTHON
- Control time and output
*SCRIPT_PYTHON_CODE
- Function
*SET_ELEMENT
- Multi-functionality test
*SET_FACE
- Multi-functionality test
*SET_GEOMETRY
- Multi-functionality test
- Pressure with geometry set
*SET_NODE
- Multi-functionality test
*SMOOTH_MESH
- Rigid plate
- csysid
*SMS
- Selective Mass Scaling
*SMS_CLUSTER
- Steel strip impacting rigid fixed cylinder
*SUBDIVIDE_PART_THICKNESS
- Absolute face sheet thickness
*TIME
- Maximum allowed mass scaling factor
- Maximum and minimum time step size
- Termination time and time step size
*TRANSFORM_MESH_CARTESIAN
- Rigid elements
*TRANSFORM_MESH_CYLINDRICAL
- Rigid elements
*TRIM
- Trim elements
*UNIT_SYSTEM
- Conversion between unit systems
- Mass, time, length of all unit systems
*VELOCITY_CAP
- AIR and HE
- CFD
- Nodes
- SOIL and SPH
*WELD
- Step 1, Generate weld
- Step 2, Verify weld

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