Basic FEA program in Basic

[alliedeng]

I use Abaqus in my daily work and would like to build my own FEA program in Visual Basic. I know it will not have anywhere the capability, flexibility, or convergence but I want to have a smaller program to solve small problems with out the LARGE cost of commercial FEA codes. Does anyone know of a basic FEA program I can get to build upon?

 

[mloew]

alliedeng,

Ahh, not to sure about VB, but you may want to take a look at the thread on Why not MATLAB for FEA? (thread727-23499) for a similar point of view.
Best regards,

Matthew Ian Loew

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[brad]

Chandrupatla and Belegunda have an introductory book. In the first few printings, all programs were written in BASIC and were available as an included disk in the book. I know the most recent still has an add-on disk, and I would assume it is still written in BASIC.
Brad

 

[barnieb]

search the internet for FEAP - it is downloadable code written in Fortran by RL Taylor who shared the authorship of the Finite Element Method with Zienkewicz. As for VB..... I dont think it is the right platform for this especially with the absence of some crucial maths libraries which you will need for this stuff. Best thing would be to package this up with a VB interface. Anyway happy hunting!!

 

[alliedeng]

Thanks all. I have developed a series of mathematical routines for VB. I mostly work in Fortran on Unix machines so this is just what I want. Now just to get some time to do the convert. I'll try to put on website when done.

steve