FElupe - Finite Element Analysis
FElupe is a Python 3.6+ finite element analysis package focussing on the formulation and numerical solution of nonlinear problems in continuum mechanics of solid bodies. Its name is a combination of FE (finite element) and the german word Lupe (magnifying glass) as a synonym for getting a little insight how a finite element analysis code looks like under the hood.
Installation
Install Python, fire up a terminal and run
pip install felupe[all]
where [all] installs all optional dependencies. By default, FElupe does not require numba and sparse. In order to make use of all features of FElupe, it is suggested to install all optional dependencies.
Hello, FElupe!
A quarter model of a solid cube with hyperelastic material behavior is subjected to a uniaxial elongation applied at a clamped end-face. This involves the creation of a mesh, a region and a displacement field. Furthermore, the boundary conditions are created by a template for a uniaxial loadcase. The material behavior is defined through a FElupe-built-in Neo-Hookean material formulation. Inside a Newton-Rhapson procedure, the internal force vector and the tangent stiffness matrix are generated by assembling both linear and bilinear forms of static equilibrium. Finally, the solution of the incremental displacements is calculated und updated until convergence is reached. For more details beside this high-level code snippet, please have a look at the documentation.
import felupe as fe
# create a hexahedron-region on a cube
region = fe.RegionHexahedron(fe.Cube(n=11))
# add a displacement field and apply a uniaxial elongation on the cube
displacement = fe.Field(region, dim=3)
boundaries, dof0, dof1, ext0 = fe.dof.uniaxial(displacement, move=0.2, clamped=True)
# define the constitutive material behavior
umat = fe.NeoHooke(mu=1.0, bulk=2.0)
# newton-rhapson procedure
res = fe.newtonrhapson(displacement, umat=umat, dof1=dof1, dof0=dof0, ext0=ext0)
# save result
fe.save(region, res.x, filename="result.vtk")
Documentation
The documentation is located here.
Changelog
All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.
[Unreleased]
Added
- Add a new method to deepcopy a
MeshwithMesh.copy() - Add broadcasting capability for trailing axes inside the parallel form integrators.
- Add
Basison top of a field for virtual fields used in linear and bilinear forms. - Add
LinearFormandBilinearForm(including mixed variants) for vector/matrix assembly out of weak form expressions. - Add
parallelkeyword for threaded integration/assembly ofLinearFormandBilinearForm.
Changed
- Enhance
Boundaryfor the application of prescribed values of any user-definedFieldwhich is part ofFieldMixed. - The whole mixed-field has to be passed to
dof.apply()along with theoffsetsreturned fromdof.partitionfor mixed-field formulations. - Set default value
shape=(1, 1)forhessian()methods of linear elastic materials.
Fixed
- Fixed einstein summation of
math.dot()for two vectors with trailing axes.
Removed
- Remove
dof.extendbecausedof.partitiondoes not need it anymore.
[1.6.0] - 2021-12-02
Added
- Add
LinearElasticPlaneStressandLinearElasticPlaneStrainmaterial formulations. - Add
regionargument forLinearElastic.hessian().
Changed
- Re-formulate
LinearElasticmaterials in terms of the deformation gradient. - Re-formulate
LinearElasticmaterial in matrix notation (Speed-up of ~10 for elasticity matrix compared to previous implementation.) - Move previous
LinearElastictoconstitution.LinearElasticTensorNotation.
[1.5.0] - 2021-11-29
Added
- Add kwargs of
field.extract()tofunandjacofnewtonrhapson.
Changed
- Set default number of
threadsinMatadiMaterialtomultiprocessing.cpu_count(). - Moved documentation to Read the Docs (Sphinx).
Fixed
- Fix
dimin calculation of reaction forces (tools.force) forFieldMixed. - Fix calculation of reaction moments (
tools.moment) forFieldMixed.
[1.4.0] - 2021-11-15
Added
- Add
maskargument toBoundaryfor the selection of user-defined points. - Add
shearloadcase. - Add a wrapper for
matadimaterials asMatadiMaterial. - Add
verboseandtimingarguments tonewtonrhapson.
Fixed
- Obtain internal
dimfrom Field in calculation of reaction forcetools.force. - Fix
math.dotfor combinations of rank 1 (vectors), rank 2 (matrices) and rank 4 tensors.
[1.3.0] - 2021-11-02
Changed
- Rename
mesh.as_discontinous()tomesh.disconnect(). - Rename
constitution.Mixedtoconstitution.ThreeFieldVariation. - Rename
unstacktooffsetsas return of dof-partition and all subsequent references. - Import tools (
newtonrhapson,project,save) and constitution (NeoHooke,LinearElasticandThreeFieldVariation) to FElupe's namespace. - Change minimal README-example to a high-level code snippet and refer to docs for details.
[1.2.0] - 2021-10-31
Added
- Add template regions, i.e. a region with a
Hexahedron()element and a quadrature schemeGaussLegendre(order=1, dim=3)asRegionHexahedron, etc. - Add biaxial and planar loadcases (like uniaxial).
- Add a minimal README-example (Hello FElupe!).
Changed
- Deactivate clamped boundary (
clamped=False) as default option for uniaxial loadingdof.uniaxial.
[1.1.0] - 2021-10-30
Added
- Add inverse quadrature method
quadrature.inv()for Gauss-Legendre schemes. - Add discontinous representation of a mesh as mesh method
mesh.as_discontinous(). - Add
tools.project()to project (and average) values at quadrature points to mesh points.
Changed
- Removed
quadpydependency and use built-in polynomials ofnumpyfor Gauss-Legendre calculation.
Fixed
- Fix typo in first shear component of
math.tovoigt()function. - Fix wrong stress projection in
tools.topoints()due to different quadrature and cell ordering.
[1.0.1] - 2021-10-19
Fixed
- Fix import of dof-module if
sparseis not installed.
[1.0.0] - 2021-10-19
Added
- Start using a Changelog.
- Added docstrings for essential classes, methods and functions.
- Add array with point locations for all elements.
Changed
- Rename element methods (from
basistofunctionand frombasisprimetogradient). - Make constitutive materials more flexible (allow material parameters to be passed at stress and elasticity evaluation
umat.gradient(F, mu=1.0)). - Rename
ndimtodim. - Simplify element base classes.
- Speed-up calculation of indices (rows, cols) for Fields and Forms (about 10x faster now).
- Update
test_element.pyaccording to changes in element methods.
Removed
- Automatic check if the gradient of a region can be calculated based on the dimensions. The
gradargument inregion(grad=False)has to be enforced by the user.
License
FElupe - finite element analysis (C) 2021 Andreas Dutzler, Graz (Austria).
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

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