Development of pre-processor for OpenSees based on Patran Command Language

摘要

OpenSees is an object-oriented open-source finite element software platform suitable for advanced simulation of structural and geotechnical systems. Lacking of powerful pre-processor, the preparing of input scripts for OpenSees is time consuming and error-prone for large and complex models. Patran is an excellent pre-processing commercial package for finite element analysis and offers the powerful Patran Command Language (PCL) for user customization. Taking the advantage of Patran in finite element pre-processing, the finite element modeling is done in Patran and the input script for OpenSees is generated by PCL. It is an alternative approach to efficient pre-processing for OpenSees.