Resources for Computational mechanics of structures and materials

Open source codes: 

·         eXtended Finite Element Method (XFEM) in Matlab (4465 downloads). link.

·         eXtended Finite Element Method (XFEM) in C++ (1891 downloads). link.

·         Element Free Galerkin Method (EFG) in Matlab (2086 downloads). link.

·         Isogeometric analysis for solids and structures in Matlab (12450 downloads). link.

·         Zero thickness interface element generators in C++ (975 downloads). link.

Research facilities: 

·         Software development kit for advanced numerical simulations (jem-jive). link.

·         Mesh generation--Gmsh. 

·         Visualisation--Paraview and VisIt.

·         Voronoi diagrams--Neper.

·         Material Point Method code in Matlab

·         FENICS: automating the finite element methods 

·         Symbolic algebra packages--Maple/SageMath.

·         From images to FE meshes: oof2.

·         Commercial codes: Abaqus, LS-DYna, Tecplot

·         Tool for coding: SublimeText, and XCode (for debugging and profiling) + iTerm2 (with zsh)

 

High quality research documents: 

I have been using LaTeX for writing reasearch articles/reports/documents since 2003. I use Microsoft Word only for proposals. For presentation slides, I use Keynote and LaTeXIt (on Mac OS).

·         Document writing: LaTeX (TexShop+Flashmode, Texpad, and SublimeText)

·         Graphics: vector graphics with Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape.

·         Finding LaTeX codes for any symbols: detexify.

·         Make animated GIF images from videos/images: in Mac OS X, simply use GIF Brewery 3 (you might need to use Quick View to convert format of your videos first). In Linux, you can use ffmpeg.

·         Making tables with http://www.tablesgenerator.com.

 

Others: 

·         Blog of Prof Rebecca Brannon at Univerisity of Utah: excellent notes on mechanics .

·         imechanica: web for mechanics and mechanicians 

·         Excellent lecture notes of Prof Fellipa at Colorado: introduction to FEM, nonlinear FEM, advanced FEM

·         MIT courses on computational science & engineering (Prof G Strang)

·         MIT course on waves and vibrations

·         MIT course on linear finite elements (Prof KJ Bathe)

·         MIT course on nonlinear finite elements

·         An online book on Computational physics

·         Learning Linux in 10 minutes

·         Tutorials on Abaqus

·         http://www.parresianz.com/index.html (with useful info on computational modelling)

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