External Software
Pre-post only:
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Gid is a pre- and postprocessor. It is commercial, however free up to 10000 nodes. Tochnog Professional can read the mesh generated by GID, and write postprocessing files for GID. This is a fine program, easy to use, many options; recommended. |
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Freecad is a free CAD program. Under active development by a community. A bit difficult to use. |
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Gmsh is a pre- and postprocessor. It is available for free. Tochnog Professional can read the mesh generated by GMSH, and write postprocessing files for GMSH. |
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Paraview is a postprocessor. It is available for free. Tochnog Professional can write vtk files for Paraview. |
Pre-post + FEM calculations:
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Adonis is a free finite element program for geotechnical calculations, with a modern GUI. Tunnels, slope stability, etc. Isoparametric elements, structural elements, etc. Mohr-coulomb, modified camclay, etc. |
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PrePoMax is a free graphical pre- and postprocessor integrated with the free calculix finite element program. For pre-processing you need to use the CAD file from an external CAD program; then meshing can be done by prepomax. Clean and easy to use, recommended. |
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Mecway is a finite element program. It is commercial, however extremely inexpensive. Tochnog Professional can read inp files from preprocessing in Mecway, and can write gmsh files for postprocessing in Mecway. |
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Welsim is a finite element program. It is commercial, however inexpensive. It enables quite typical finite element calculations, mostly mechanics. |
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Simscale finite element program in the cloud (in your webbrowser). It is commercial. Fluids, solids, etc. |
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Ansys is a commercial finite element program. A free academic version is available. |
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Abaqus is a finite element program. It is commercial, however an academic version is available. |
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Femap is a finite element program. It is commercial, however an academic version is available. |
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Sap2000 is structural design and analysis software. It is commercial. A trial is available. |
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Scia is structural engineering software. It is commercial. A free student license is available. |
Other (theory, etc.):
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SoilModels is an internet site propagating the use of advanced soil models. It is run by a group of leading researchers in the field of geomechanics. |