Besides being used widely in industries, the ADINA System is also used effectively in teaching and research at universities all around the world. ADINA offers many attractive capabilities for use as a teaching and research tool. For details of features, see below, or click on the text balloons in the following figure.

Academic Features

• Unlimited usage of ADINA throughout the university with no restriction on the number of concurrent users, problem sizes and analysis capabilities.
   
  
• The ADINA System can be used to analyze structural, thermal, CFD, electromagnetics, fluid-structure interaction, thermo-mechanical coupling and multiphysics problems.
   
  
• One pre- and post-processor for all analysis types, with solid modeling capabilities based on the Parasolid Kernel (e.g., NX, SolidEdge, SolidWorks) and also the IGES interface.
   
  
• The theory and formulations used in ADINA follow closely the material in the book Finite Element Procedures by K. J. Bathe.
   
  
• Solutions to exercises in the book "Finite Element Procedures", 2nd Edition, 2014 are given in this manual (.pdf)

    The Chinese translation of the 2nd edition is also available: Vol. 1 Vol. 2

• The source code of the programs in the book can be downloaded:
  Unix version (tar and gzip) or PC version (winzip).
  
  
• In addition, the following books can be used to complement the above reference:

  • The Finite Element Analysis of Shells — Fundamentals by D. Chapelle and K. J. Bathe

  • Inelastic Analysis of Solids and Structures by M. Kojic and K. J. Bathe

  • The Mechanics of Solids and Structures: Hierarchical Modeling and the Finite Element Solution
    by M. L. Bucalem and K. J. Bathe
  
   
  
• Courses taught by Prof. Bathe at MIT are available through the MIT Open Course Ware as an online source for teaching finite element methods:

  • Video Lectures: Finite Element Procedures for Solids and Structures
    

  • 2.092 / 2.093 Finite Element Analysis of Solids and Fluids I
    

  • 2.094 Finite Element Analysis of Solids and Fluids II
  
   
  
• ADINA is built upon a consistent and rigorous theoretical foundation.
   
  
• Many publications give results obtained using ADINA, providing a rich resource for users looking to apply ADINA in both traditional and innovative applications.
   
  
• A 900 nodes version of the program is provided that can be freely distributed to students to be used on their own personal computers. No password is required to run this special version.
   
  
• More than 200 case studies, illustrating different capabilities of ADINA, are presented in the ADINA Tech Briefs.
   
  
• ADINA allows users to program their own types of loads, elements, and material models, making it a valuable tool for researchers.
   
  

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