Based on a hunch, we are running a light‑hearted but serious computational exercise on reproducibility open to absolutely every Abaqus user. We are releasing four small Abaqus input files for a cylindrical shell under uniform meridional compression. No knowledge of shells whatsoever is required.

https://imperialcollegelondon.app.box.com/v/RRX-Participant-Materials

Our request to the community is simple: please run these to completion without any parallelisation, then run the provided Python script to extract the data into .csv files. Complete the very short metadata Excel questionnaire, place the .csv and .xlsx files into a uniquely named .zip archive, and send it back to us. The whole process should take no more than 30 minutes.

Please repost and forward this to any Abaqus user you know — we’d like as many submissions as possible across a wide range of Abaqus versions and hardware. Our target is 1000.

Please make no modifications to the input files of any kind and let them run as far as they go. If anything interesting emerges, we will prepare a short publication and acknowledge all participants.