Simple linear static analysis of 3D frames and trusses.
feapy reads input files in a subset of the Calculix/Abaqus format and create results files in the frd format readably by Calculix's cgx application for results viewing.
Currently Calculix expands beam elements to volume elements and therfore can be unpractical for larger models and complicated beam sections. Large beam models are typical for ship structures, offshore structures and the building industry. The long term goal of feapy is to fill a small part of this gap and perhaps support shell elements, non-linearities etc. in the future.
Initially feapy needs a python 2.7 installation including a numpy installation. Other python version have not been tested.
Also for equation solving either:
- Shipped solver wrapping the spooles solver.
- pysparse package compiled with the superlu solver.
- scipy package (A bug in scipy prevent this currently from working)
Later more of the numerical part of the code will be moved to faster compiled Cython based code and the dependency on numpy will be removed.