Elasticity

Description

A SOFA plugin for the development of a clean FEM formulation.

Possible Roadmap

• Linear elasticity
  • A unique linear formulation for any type of element in any dimension
  • A unique corotational formulation for any type of element in any dimension
  • Computation of von Mises stress for visualization (linear)
  • Computation of von Mises stress for visualization (corotational)
  • Multiple methods to compute the rotation
  • Rigorous heterogeneous material
• Hyperlaticity
  • A unique nonlinear formulation for any type of element in any dimension, with any constitutive equation
  • Common nonlinear constitutive equation
• Other Features
  • Support for topological changes
  • Support for computation of the potential energy
• Performances
  • Benchmark: compare to the existing SOFA force fields
  • Micro-benchmarking to improve performances
  • Vectorization
  • CPU parallelization
  • GPU parallelization
• Support for mixed mesh
  • Support for connective elements in this plugin
  • Support for connective elements in SOFA topologies
• Support for higher-order elements
  • Support for higher-order elements in this plugin
  • Support for higher-order elements in SOFA topologies
• V&V
  • Unit testing
  • Mechanical tests