{"id":78,"date":"2022-01-19T12:20:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iitrpr.ac.in\/civil\/?page_id=78"},"modified":"2022-06-10T11:10:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T11:10:21","slug":"computer-aided-design-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"\/civil\/?page_id=78","title":{"rendered":"Computer Aided Design Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong>&nbsp;Room 137, Transit campus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Officer in charge:<\/strong>\u00a0Dr. Aditya Singh Rajput<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iitrpr.ac.in\/civil\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CAD-Lab-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1652\" srcset=\"\/civil\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CAD-Lab-min.jpg 1920w, \/civil\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CAD-Lab-min-300x200.jpg 300w, \/civil\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CAD-Lab-min-1024x683.jpg 1024w, \/civil\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CAD-Lab-min-768x512.jpg 768w, \/civil\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CAD-Lab-min-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>Opensource Research &amp; Teaching Tools<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Freecad:<\/strong>&nbsp;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.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freecadweb.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.freecadweb.org\/<\/a><\/li><li><strong>Calculix:<\/strong>&nbsp;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.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/Sainiweb%20Office%20Work\/iitropar\/resources-pageinner.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.calculix.de\/<\/a>;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/Sainiweb%20Office%20Work\/iitropar\/resources-pageinner.php\">http:\/\/www.dhondt.de\/<\/a>. 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.<\/li><li><strong>Sphysics:<\/strong>&nbsp;A C, C++ based particle based simulation code. Ideal for simulating fluid, or fluid structure interaction problem.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/Sainiweb%20Office%20Work\/iitropar\/resources-pageinner.php\">https:\/\/dual.sphysics.org\/<\/a><\/li><li><strong>Scilab, and GNU Octave:<\/strong>&nbsp;Matlab alternatives.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/Sainiweb%20Office%20Work\/iitropar\/resources-pageinner.php\">https:\/\/www.scilab.org\/<\/a>;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/Sainiweb%20Office%20Work\/iitropar\/resources-pageinner.php\">https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/octave\/<\/a><\/li><li><strong>WxMaxima:<\/strong>&nbsp;Wolfram Mathematica alternative.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/Sainiweb%20Office%20Work\/iitropar\/resources-pageinner.php\">https:\/\/wxmaxima-developers.github.io\/wxmaxima\/<\/a><\/li><li><strong>Paraview:<\/strong>&nbsp;Data analysis and visualization tool.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/Sainiweb%20Office%20Work\/iitropar\/resources-pageinner.php\">https:\/\/www.paraview.org\/<\/a><\/li><li><strong>GMSH:<\/strong>&nbsp;For meshing a 2D or 3D domain and to generate input file.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/Sainiweb%20Office%20Work\/iitropar\/resources-pageinner.php\">http:\/\/gmsh.info\/<\/a><\/li><li><strong>DualSphysics:<\/strong>&nbsp;Opensource, smooth particle hydrodynamics code for fluid, and fluid-structures interaction problems.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/Sainiweb%20Office%20Work\/iitropar\/resources-pageinner.php\">https:\/\/dual.sphysics.org<\/a><\/li><li><strong>PySPH:<\/strong>&nbsp;Particle based fluid and solid simulation tool.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/Sainiweb%20Office%20Work\/iitropar\/resources-pageinner.php\">https:\/\/pysph.readthedocs.io\/en\/latest\/<\/a><\/li><li><strong>SfePy:<\/strong>&nbsp;Python-based finite element codes.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/Sainiweb%20Office%20Work\/iitropar\/resources-pageinner.php\">http:\/\/sfepy.org\/doc-devel\/index.html<\/a><\/li><li><strong>CSC Elmer:<\/strong>&nbsp;A multiphysics simulation software for fluid, structural, electromagnetics, heat transfer and acoustics. You can say it is an alternative to COMSOL.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/Sainiweb%20Office%20Work\/iitropar\/resources-pageinner.php\">https:\/\/www.csc.fi\/web\/elmer\/elmer<\/a><\/li><li><strong>GMSH:<\/strong>&nbsp;Opensource finite element meshing tool.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/Sainiweb%20Office%20Work\/iitropar\/resources-pageinner.php\">http:\/\/gmsh.info\/<\/a><\/li><li><strong>Gnuplot:<\/strong>&nbsp;Very useful tool for creating publication quality plots.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/Sainiweb%20Office%20Work\/iitropar\/resources-pageinner.php\">http:\/\/www.gnuplot.info\/<\/a><\/li><li><strong>PyLab:<\/strong>&nbsp;For developing python based tools.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/Sainiweb%20Office%20Work\/iitropar\/resources-pageinner.php\">http:\/\/www.rci.rutgers.edu\/~mmm431\/psych_540\/notebooks\/Pylab-Tutorial.html<\/a><\/li><li><strong>MICROMECHANICS:<\/strong>&nbsp;A collection of codes for micromechanics simulations.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/Sainiweb%20Office%20Work\/iitropar\/resources-pageinner.php\">https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/multiscale\/<\/a><\/li><li><strong>LAMMPS:<\/strong>&nbsp;Molecular dynamics simulation tool.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/Sainiweb%20Office%20Work\/iitropar\/resources-pageinner.php\">https:\/\/lammps.sandia.gov\/<\/a>&nbsp;Quasicontinuum: Coupled finite element and atomistic simulation code.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/Sainiweb%20Office%20Work\/iitropar\/resources-pageinner.php\">http:\/\/qcmethod.org\/documentation<\/a><\/li><li><strong>OpenFPM:<\/strong>&nbsp;A opensource tool for particle-based simulations.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/Sainiweb%20Office%20Work\/iitropar\/resources-pageinner.php\">http:\/\/openfpm.mpi-cbg.de\/<\/a><\/li><li><strong>ParaView:<\/strong>&nbsp;For data analysis and visualization.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/Sainiweb%20Office%20Work\/iitropar\/resources-pageinner.php\">https:\/\/www.paraview.org<\/a><\/li><li><strong>Peridigm:<\/strong>&nbsp;An opensource tool for Peridynamic simulation which is a particle based approach towards solving solid mechanics problems.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/Sainiweb%20Office%20Work\/iitropar\/resources-pageinner.php\">http:\/\/www.peridynamics.org\/<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There are many more that you should explore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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