FAUN: A Program for the Analysis of Frameworks, Pipeworks and Shells Using the UNCLE Finite Element Scheme

摘要

FAUN is a general purpose program for the elastic analysis of frameworks, pipeworks and shells. It can be used for both static and dynamic analysis. The structure is subdivided into a number of elements and the mesh analysed using the geometry of the system, the properties of the components and the loading and restraint conditions. A wide variety of elements is available to describe beam, pipe, plate, shell and membrane structures. Such structures may have complex loading systems which can be specified with a minimum of input. Applied loads may include point loads, thermal loads, pressure, self weight, general distributed loads, and 'lack of fit' such as cold pull in pipeworks. Several different types of load can be applied to an element in the same run. There are also facilities for imposing very general restraint conditions on parts of the structure. Several cases may be run in succession and it is possible to dump information at various points in the calculation for use later. This means, for example, that a long case may be run in stages or information may be saved in order to try different loading cases in future runs at a relatively small cost. A big advantage of FAUN is that there are no direct limits on the number of elements, imposed restraints, nodes, etc. in the structure because of the table handling facilities used by FAUN. (Atomindex citation 13:660103)