Computer Aided Design Laboratory
The computer aided design lab is equipped with high performance workstations, and desktop computers for research and teaching. Various software related to Structural analysis, geotechnical engineering, water-resources engineering, geomatics engineering are available.
Location: Room 137, Transit campus
Lab In-charge: Dr. Reet Kamal Tiwari; reetkamal[at]iitrpr.ac.in
Opensource Research and Teaching Tools
We promote research through opensource tools therefore a few recommended ones are given as follows. However, these open-source tools sometimes have bugs so you must be aware of what you are doing. Also note that most of these opensource codes are for non-commercial purposes only.
- Freecad: A parametric modeler. It also has BIM, CAD etc. With help of python you can develop new features here. It can seamlessly interface with Calculix, Sphysics. https://www.freecadweb.org/
- Calculix: Finite element analysis tool. It is opensource, so you can add new features. However, you have to use Fortran programming language. It is similar to ABAQUS. http://www.calculix.de/; http://www.dhondt.de/. IIT Ropar Civil Engineering UG students Mr. Prateek Maheshwari, Mr. Nanak Batra, and Mr. Sourabh Aggarwal developed a tensile membrane structure form-finding and analysis tool using this software.
- Sphysics: A C, C++ based particle based simulation code. Ideal for simulating fluid, or fluid structure interaction problem. https://dual.sphysics.org/
- Scilab, and GNU Octave: Matlab alternatives. https://www.scilab.org/; https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
- WxMaxima: Wolfram Mathematica alternative. https://wxmaxima-developers.github.io/wxmaxima/
- Paraview: Data analysis and visualization tool. https://www.paraview.org/
- GMSH: For meshing a 2D or 3D domain and to generate input file. http://gmsh.info/
- DualSphysics: Opensource, smooth particle hydrodynamics code for fluid, and fluid-structures interaction problems. https://dual.sphysics.org
- PySPH: Particle based fluid and solid simulation tool. https://pysph.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- SfePy: Python-based finite element codes. http://sfepy.org/doc-devel/index.html
- CSC Elmer: A multiphysics simulation software for fluid, structural, electromagnetics, heat transfer and acoustics. You can say it is an alternative to COMSOL. https://www.csc.fi/web/elmer/elmer
- GMSH: Opensource finite element meshing tool. http://gmsh.info/
- Gnuplot: Very useful tool for creating publication quality plots. http://www.gnuplot.info/
- PyLab: For developing python based tools. http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~mmm431/psych_540/notebooks/Pylab-Tutorial.html
- MICROMECHANICS: A collection of codes for micromechanics simulations. https://sourceforge.net/projects/multiscale/
- LAMMPS: Molecular dynamics simulation tool. https://lammps.sandia.gov/
- Quasicontinuum: Coupled finite element and atomistic simulation code. http://qcmethod.org/documentation
- OpenFPM: A opensource tool for particle-based simulations. http://openfpm.mpi-cbg.de/
- ParaView: For data analysis and visualization. https://www.paraview.org
- Peridigm: An opensource tool for Peridynamic simulation which is a particle based approach towards solving solid mechanics problems. http://www.peridynamics.org/
There are many more that you should explore