ODBP: Modern data processing for additive manufacturing thermal models in Abaqus

ODBP is a novel tool for interfacing with the Abaqus .odb file format for metal-based additive manufacturing (AM), transferring the data to the open source .hdf5 format, providing both modern data visualization methods and multi-core, high performance capabilities for data manipulation. Abaqus is a commercially-available software for performing finite element analysis (FEA), which generates substantial datasets, stored in the proprietary .odb file format. FEA is used to model the thermal and mechanical response resulting from deposition during the wire-arc directed energy deposition (arc-DED) process, an AM process. ODBP focuses on providing a more robust and efficient interface to .odb data than Abaqus.