[Scilab-users] FEA in Scilab

[Samuel Gougeon]

Le 27/01/2020 à 11:25, Claus Futtrup a écrit :
> Dear fellow Scilabers
>
> There are various initiatives and possibly demonstration projects for 
> implementing Finite Element algorithms and Analysis in Scilab. Please 
> help me by providing pointers.
>
> What I'd like to simulate is the suspension of a loudspeaker (the 
> cloth spider which essentially centers the voice coil in the air gap), 
> in particular I wish to calculate a force-deflection curve.
>
> In my particular case, I'd like to describe the spider as a 
> collection of line segments (straight lines as well as circular 
> sections). This description represents a cross section view of the 
> spider. For proper modeling, this is an axisymmetric model of the spider.
>
> I have a simple description of what I'd like to do in Scilab, but done 
> in a software named Mecway. The PDF is 650 kb (4 pages). I am worried 
> about attaching such a document to the User Group here in general, but 
> I can of course send it on request. In Mecway the axisymmetric model 
> is expanded into 3D with hex8 elements (it looks like a basic cubic 
> element). The force-function is applied in 40 time steps. It looks 
> like 40 x basic static analysis.
>
> Please let me know what you think would be suitable for solving this 
> problem. Is there a suitable ATOMS library?


sciFreeFEM, but it is not ported to Scilab 6: 
https://atoms.scilab.org/toolboxes/SciFreeFEM

Samuel