[bigphil]

Hi All,

I have been meaning to do this for a while and I have finally got around to it.
I have assembled the finite volume solid mechanics solvers that have been developed by my research group under the guidance of Prof. Alojz Ivanković, University College Dublin. A large number of people have contributed to the development of the solvers: Aleksandar Karac, Zeljko Tukovic, Hrvoje Jasak, Philip Cardiff, Declan Carolan, Michael Leonard and Valentine Kanyanta.

The included solid mechanics solvers employ the finite volume method
(not finite elements) to numerically approximate the displacements
and stresses in solid bodies undergoing deformation.

The included solvers are suitable for small strain, small strain with
large rotations, large strain, cohesive zones, plasticity, thermal-
elasticity, visco-elasticity, gravity forces, fluid-structure
interactions, multi-material analyses and contact stress analysis.

A number of custom boundary conditions with full non-orthogonal correction
are including time-varying displacements and tractions, fixed rotations,
and fixed displacements with zero shear stress.

The solvers have been added as a feature branch to OpenFOAM-1.6-ext. To download, get OpenFOAM-1.6-ext using git:

git clone git://openfoam-extend.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/openfoam-extend/OpenFOAM-1.6-ext

Then the solidMechanics feature branch may be checked out:

git checkout -b feature/solidMechanics remotes/origin/feature/solidMechanics

Now you will find the directory $WM_PROJECT_DIR/applications/solvers/solidMechanics containing the new solvers, tutorials and utilities.

Hopefully some of you will find this useful and maybe some of you will be converted from finite elements

Have fun.

Best regards,
Philip