SLFFEA

Updated 12/17/08

SLFFEA stands for San Le's Free Finite Element Analysis. It is a package of scientific software and graphical user interfaces for use in finite element analysis. It is written in ANSI C by San Le and distributed under the terms of the GNU license.

Rendered Cylindrical Fin Mesh.

Rendered Spring Mesh with Stress YZ.

What SLFFEA includes

15 of the basic finite element types:

3-D 2 node beam
3-D 8 node brick
2-D 3 node plate
2-D 4 node plate
3-D 3 node plate with membrane
3-D 4 node plate with membrane
2-D 4 node quad (plane stress/strain)
3-D 4 node quad with membrane
3-D 4 node doubly curved shell (individual element defined by 4 or 8 nodes)
3-D 3 node doubly curved shell (individual element defined by 3 or 6 nodes)
3-D 4 node tetrahedron
2-D 3 node triangle (plane stress/strain)
3-D 3 node triangle with membrane
3-D 2 node truss
3-D 6 node wedge

6 non-linear large deformation elements using Updated Lagrange formulation with Jaumann Stress Rate:

And 1 thermal element:

3-D 8 node brick - It can handle thermal loads as well as orthotropy.

9 Graphical User Interfaces for each element type:

SLFFEA is dedicated to Richard Stallman , Granddaddy of the Free Software Movement, Linus Torvalds, its prodigal son, and everyone on comp.os.linux.setup .

Go to download page .

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