ABAQUS
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ABAQUS is a commercial software package for finite element analysis. It is used widely in academic institutions, probably because of rather inexpensive academic licensing. Its elastomer (ruberlike) material capabilities are supposed to be excellent. It has a good general purpose analysis component, ABAQUS/Standard, and a dynamics component, ABAQUS/Explicit. ABAQUS/CAE and ABAQUS/Viewer are the pre- and post-processors for the finite element models. ABAQUS/CAE and ABAQUS/Viewer use the open-source scripting language Python for programmability.