Contents

• Introduction.
• How to perform CalculiX calculations in parallel
• Units
• Golden rules
• Simple example problems
  • Cantilever beam
  • Frequency calculation of a beam loaded by compressive forces
  • Frequency calculation of a rotating disk on a slender shaft
  • Thermal calculation of a furnace
  • Seepage under a dam
  • Capacitance of a cylindrical capacitor
  • Hydraulic pipe system
  • Lid-driven cavity
  • Transient laminar incompressible Couette problem
  • Stationary laminar inviscid compressible airfoil flow
  • Stationary laminar viscous compressible airfoil flow
  • Channel with hydraulic jump
  • Cantilever beam using beam elements
  • Reinforced concrete cantilever beam
  • Wrinkling of a thin sheet
  • Optimization of a simply supported beam
  • Mesh refinement of a curved cantilever beam
  
  
• Theory
  • Node Types
  • Element Types
  • Beam Section Types
  • Fluid Section Types: Gases
  • Fluid Section Types: Liquids
  • Fluid Section Types: Open Channels
  • Boundary conditions
  • Materials
  • Types of analysis
  • Convergence criteria
  • Loading
  • Error estimators
  • Output variables
  
  
• Input deck format
  • *AMPLITUDE
  • *BASE MOTION
  • *BEAM SECTION
  • *BOUNDARY
  • *BOUNDARYF
  • *BUCKLE
  • *CFD
  • *CFLUX
  • *CHANGE FRICTION
  • *CHANGE MATERIAL
  • *CHANGE PLASTIC
  • *CHANGE SURFACE BEHAVIOR
  • *CHANGE SOLID SECTION
  • *CLEARANCE
  • *CLOAD
  • *COMPLEX FREQUENCY
  • *CONDUCTIVITY
  • *CONSTRAINT
  • *CONTACT DAMPING
  • *CONTACT FILE
  • *CONTACT OUTPUT
  • *CONTACT PAIR
  • *CONTACT PRINT
  • *CONTROLS
  • *COUPLED TEMPERATURE-DISPLACEMENT
  • *COUPLING
  • *CREEP
  • *CYCLIC HARDENING
  • *CYCLIC SYMMETRY MODEL
  • *DAMPING
  • *DASHPOT
  • *DEFORMATION PLASTICITY
  • *DENSITY
  • *DEPVAR
  • *DESIGN VARIABLES
  • *DFLUX
  • *DISTRIBUTING
  • *DISTRIBUTING COUPLING
  • *DLOAD
  • *DSLOAD
  • *DYNAMIC
  • *ELASTIC
  • *ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY
  • *ELECTROMAGNETICS
  • *ELEMENT
  • *ELEMENT OUTPUT
  • *EL FILE
  • *EL PRINT
  • *ELSET
  • *END STEP
  • *EQUATION
  • *EXPANSION
  • *FILM
  • *FILTER
  • *FLUID CONSTANTS
  • *FLUID SECTION
  • *FREQUENCY
  • *FRICTION
  • *GAP
  • *GAP CONDUCTANCE
  • *GAP HEAT GENERATION
  • *GREEN
  • *HEADING
  • *HEAT TRANSFER
  • *HYPERELASTIC
  • *HYPERFOAM
  • *INCLUDE
  • *INITIAL CONDITIONS
  • *INITIAL STRAIN INCREASE
  • *KINEMATIC
  • *MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY
  • *MASS
  • *MASS FLOW
  • *MATERIAL
  • *MEMBRANE SECTION
  • *MODAL DAMPING
  • *MODAL DYNAMIC
  • *MODEL CHANGE
  • *MPC
  • *NETWORK MPC
  • *NO ANALYSIS
  • *NODAL THICKNESS
  • *NODE
  • *NODE FILE
  • *NODE OUTPUT
  • *NODE PRINT
  • *NORMAL
  • *NSET
  • *OBJECTIVE
  • *ORIENTATION
  • *OUTPUT
  • *PHYSICAL CONSTANTS
  • *PLASTIC
  • *PRE-TENSION SECTION
  • *RADIATE
  • *REFINE MESH
  • *RESTART
  • *RETAINED NODAL DOFS
  • *RIGID BODY
  • *SECTION PRINT
  • *SELECT CYCLIC SYMMETRY MODES
  • *SENSITIVITY
  • *SHELL SECTION
  • *SOLID SECTION
  • *SPECIFIC GAS CONSTANT
  • *SPECIFIC HEAT
  • *SPRING
  • *STATIC
  • *STEADY STATE DYNAMICS
  • *STEP
  • *SUBMODEL
  • *SUBSTRUCTURE GENERATE
  • *SUBSTRUCTURE MATRIX OUTPUT
  • *SURFACE
  • *SURFACE BEHAVIOR
  • *SURFACE INTERACTION
  • *TEMPERATURE
  • *TIE
  • *TIME POINTS
  • *TRANSFORM
  • *TRANSFORMF
  • *UNCOUPLED TEMPERATURE-DISPLACEMENT
  • *USER ELEMENT
  • *USER MATERIAL
  • *VALUES AT INFINITY
  • *VIEWFACTOR
  • *VISCO
  
  
• User subroutines.
  • Creep (creep.f)
  • Hardening (uhardening.f)
  • User-defined initial conditions
  • User-defined loading
  • User-defined mechanical material laws.
  • User-defined thermal material laws.
  • User-defined nonlinear equations
  • User-defined elements
  
  
• Programming rules.
• Program structure.
  • Allocation of the fields
  • Reading the step input data
  • Expansion of the one-dimensional and two-dimensional elements
  • Contact
  • Determining the matrix structure
  • Filling and solving the set of equations, storing the results
  • Major routines
  • Aerodynamic and hydraulic networks
  • Three-Dimensional Navier-Stokes Calculations
  • Sensitivity Analysis
  • Mesh refinement
  • List of variables and their meaning
  
  
• Verification examples.
• Bibliography