01 Abaqus and other commercial FE codes will report the progress of an analysis. Abaqus 02 uses what is called a STATUS file and two examples are listed below. 03 04 Example STATUS file output for Homework 5/7, which is a simple linear problem. 05 06 Abaqus/Standard 6.12-1 DATE 26-Sep-2012 TIME 19:38:12 07 SUMMARY OF JOB INFORMATION: 08 STEP INC ATT SEVERE EQUIL TOTAL TOTAL STEP INC OF DOF IF 09 DISCON ITERS ITERS TIME/ TIME/LPF TIME/LPF MONITOR RIKS 10 ITERS FREQ 11 1 1 1 0 1 1 1.00 1.00 1.000 12 13 THE ANALYSIS HAS COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY 14 15 16 17 18 Example STATUS file for a nonlinear material in a contact problem (see figure). 19 20 Abaqus/Standard 6.12-1 DATE 03-Sep-2012 TIME 01:12:44 21 SUMMARY OF JOB INFORMATION: 22 STEP INC ATT SEVERE EQUIL TOTAL TOTAL STEP INC OF DOF IF 23 DISCON ITERS ITERS TIME/ TIME/LPF TIME/LPF MONITOR RIKS 24 ITERS FREQ 25 1 1 1 1 1 2 0.10 0.10 0.100 26 1 1 1 1 1 2 0.20 0.20 0.100 27 1 1 1 1 5 6 0.42 0.42 0.220 28 1 1 1 2 3 5 0.57 0.57 0.150 29 1 1 1 1 3 4 0.69 0.69 0.120 30 1 1 1 1 5 6 0.85 0.85 0.160 31 1 1 1 0 4 4 1.00 1.00 0.150 32 2 1 1 2 8 10 1.10 0.10 0.100 33 2 2 1 1 7 8 1.20 0.20 0.100 34 2 3 1 2 9 11 1.40 0.40 0.200 35 2 4 1 2 12 14 1.40 0.40 0.200 36 2 4U 2 8 3 11 1.45 0.45 0.050 37 2 5 1 1 9 10 1.50 0.50 0.050 38 2 6 1 1 12 13 1.60 0.60 0.100 39 2 7 1 2 9 11 1.70 0.70 0.100 40 2 8 1 1 8 9 1.90 0.90 0.200 41 2 9 1 1 9 10 1.90 0.90 0.200 42 2 9U 2 8 2 10 1.95 0.95 0.050 43 2 10 1 1 5 6 2.00 1.00 0.050 44 45 THE ANALYSIS HAS COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY