On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Prasanna Venkadesh > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Dear Luggies, >> more > importantly Analysis and designs( Column load carrying capacity etc.). > > Apolgies for butting in. > > I had recoded the Structural Analysis program from Fortran to Pascal circa > 1994. > > It is a part of a product built by Indian Engineer for Indian > conditions. It is known as Build-Master by Ensoft Consultants, Mumbai. > Very inexpensive compared to Staad. > > I am not sure it has FEA capabilities as due to DOS, I was forced to > recode it for only two node elements (Grid, truss and frame) It > generates drawings in DXF format. > > I have to say it is proprietary. It's been a while since I had done > that and I have not checked recently whether it runs on Linux.
In the 80s, I remember Prof.CSK's dept having a homegrown FEA package (Fortran) for standard elements used in civil structures (did not have shells then I think). Maybe someone could take that and port it on Linux rewritten in a different language. DXF imports are relatively easy to write too. -- Mohan Sundaram _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
