ABAQUS and CAE Research License & ESD (Expires 06/30/2024)
A license is required for each computer you wish to install Abaqus on, for use by the primary user.
This is an annual subscription license that expires June 30, 2024.
Who can use this software? And where.
Faculty and Staff - On University devices for research purposes.
This software is the property of the University of Illinois and you have the right to use this software as long as you maintain status as faculty, staff, or student at the University of Illinois.
What license or activation method is used?
This software is licensed through a concurrent license manager.
ABAQUS is used for stress, heat transfer, and other types of analysis in mechanical, structural, civil, biomedical, and related engineering applications.
The following products are included with this software:
FE-Safe
Research licenses may also be used for instructional teaching. Results from work done with research licenses must reference Abaqus and be made publicly available. A network connection is required. This offer contains installers for version 2020, 2021, 2022
The SIMULIA Learning Community contains video tutorials. Customers will first have to create an ID and Password by following the simple directions.
Abaqus Student Edition is available to download for free for academic students, professors and researchers from here.
Please review operating system support before purchasing.
* Linux platform notes:
The Abaqus CAD Associative Interfaces for CATIA v5, Pro/ENGINEER, and Solidworks are not supported on the Linux platform.
For Haswell and newer processors a kernel update may be required. Please see bug number BR10000165399.
Abaqus/CAE users may see this warning on startup: "/usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.62: no version information available". This message can safely be ignored