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

• Student version – free but node-limitation – through Bentley Education
  

  ADINA Ultimate is available through Bentley Education under the Structural Analysis section. This is a fully functional version of the ADINA Ultimate package including structural, thermal, and computational fluid dynamics capabilities. The student version is limited only in the size of models that are to be solved (10,000 nodes for structures problems, and up to 30,000 nodes for CFD).

  The Bentley Education program is committed to making Bentley infrastructure design software available to students and educators everywhere for free. We ask students and educators to sign into the (Bentley Education - Unlimited access to Bentley engineering applications) platform to access the educational version of ADINA Ultimate. Kindly refer to the instructions here to download the software from the Bentley Education Portal and our YouTube video link for guidance. Please note, this is a mandatory step: Update your Profile under the Dashboard section with the required fields. Please note that you need to be logged in and have an updated profile to access the product download.

   
  
• A fully functional Research license at a discounted price is available. For inquiries into the Research license, please contact Bentley by clicking on ‘Contact Us’ on the Bentley ADINA page, www.bentley.com/software/adina/
   
  
• 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.
   
  
• 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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