Hello nice people!

 

From time to time, I'd like to compute the minimum force that buckles a truss, and hand computations get quickly too complicated.

 

So: could you recommend me a piece of software for that?

 

What I need:

- Quickly learned and installed, for Windows, free of nearly (I know that's incompatible)

- Something like 30 nodes and 60 beams

- Input as a text file would be just fine

 

Thank you!

"... free of nearly (I know that's incompatible) "

 

 

If this was supposed to say free or open source, as far as I can find there isn't a free and open source CAE package that fits your description. If you would like to spend some time on getting something up and going there are options. The best one that I can tell, given your enthusiasm for text files, would be OpenFOAM /w OpenCASCADE.

 

If you wanted to do volumetric meshing inside of a meshing studio Salome Platform is pretty ok if you can get it to build right. There are binaries for various Linux builds and the source is available. I built it under Scientific Linux, but of coarse, this requires installing Linux and you were pretty specific about Windows.

 

OpenFOAM /w OpenCASCADE is going to be a steep learning curve!

Edited November 12, 201114 yr by Xittenn