FeView: Finite element model (FEM) visualization and post-processing tool for OpenSees

Md Motiur Rahman; Tahmina Tasnim Nahar; Dookie Kim

SoftwareX (Jul 2021)

FeView: Finite element model (FEM) visualization and post-processing tool for OpenSees

Md Motiur Rahman,
Tahmina Tasnim Nahar,
Dookie Kim

Affiliations

Md Motiur Rahman: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kunsan National University, Gunsan-si, Jeollabuk-do 54150, Republic of Korea; Department of Civil Engineering, Pabna University of Science and Technology, Pabna 6600, Bangladesh
Tahmina Tasnim Nahar: Department of Civil Engineering, Pabna University of Science and Technology, Pabna 6600, Bangladesh
Dookie Kim: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kongju National University, Cheonan-si, Chungnam 31080, Republic of Korea; Corresponding author.

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 15
p. 100751

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This paper describes a newly developed tool, called FeView, which is a Python-based graphical user interface (GUI) for OpenSees solver. FeView offers an open-source and stand-alone windows system that is very easy and simple to use. It can support a wide range of element types (46 types) and all kinds of material, connection, constraint, analysis options that are available in OpenSees. Users need to create Tool Command Language (TCL) files as per the specification of OpenSees and then FeView will visualize the finite element model and post-processing related to contours, x-y graphs for nodal responses, etc.

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ISSN: 2352-7110 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: Netherlands
LCC subjects: Science: Mathematics: Instruments and machines: Electronic computers. Computer science: Computer software
Website: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/softwarex/

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