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. Amar Nath Roy Chowdhury; amarrc[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