ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the ABAQUS and ANSYS modeling environments to gain a sense of how items such as physics, spacial dimension, time dependency, model domain, coefficients, type of study, boundary and initial conditions, and loading conditions, as well as type of elements and order of discretization are taken care of in these software packages. The module list in ABAQUS provides not only quick access to various model-building components but also lists of icons for the modeling functions corresponding to each item on the module list. The chapter also describes the contents of the main menu in ANSYS.
