Virtual Marine Arsenal

Impact

Structure Analysis | Nonlinear | Explicit | FEM

Impact is a Finite Element Program Suite which simulates dynamic impact events which is based on an explicit time stepping algorithm. These kind of codes are used to simulate dynamic phenomena usually involving large deformations.

Impact has been written in Java. It has been designed to be easily extensible and modular to enable  programmers a way to easy add features to the program without having to enter other parts of the code.

There are quite few explicit codes around which might seem strange since the other cousin (implicit finite element) are quite common. The implicit codes are used to simulate static loads in structures something that explicit codes does not manage very well.

License: Open Source
Operating System(s):
  • Linux
  • MacOS
  • BSD
  • Windows







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