I am taking the FEM course on coursera sponsored by u-mich. I just installed deal.ii and successfully ran the first example. I am quite happy with that, but before learning more, I want to make sure how suitable is deal.ii for me (in the professional aspect, I am a civil engineer) and how much I can achieve with it.
a) Is it possible to include any material constitutive relation, for example, Todeshini Stress-strain relationship (Figure b) ? [image: http://www.mdpi.com/materials/materials-08-00435/article_deploy/html/images/materials-08-00435-g005-1024.png] <http://www.mdpi.com/materials/materials-08-00435/article_deploy/html/images/materials-08-00435-g005-1024.png> b) is it possible to work with frame/bar elements in 1D, 2D and 3D, not only on compression or tension loads (which I know deall.ii is capable of), but also being capable of describing the flexural behavior, this is, is deal.ii capable of modeling a Bernoulli Beam <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%E2%80%93Bernoulli_beam_theory>? c) is it possible to model shell elements in 2D and 3D (and as before), not only for compression/tension (or plane stress/strain problems), but also modeling it's bending behavior, like a bending plate. d) Is it possible to model hysteric behavior <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteresis>? -- The deal.II project is located at http://www.dealii.org/ For mailing list/forum options, see https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dealii?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "deal.II User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
