Tom Svilans's Page

Ron Shvartsman replied to Tom Svilans's discussion Volumetric stress analysis / form finding with meshes in the group karamba

"Might Millipede be useful for this? http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/millipede I am fairly certain, this will allow you to find stress and flow lines of 3d water tight meshes. You may have to approximate a volumetric mesh from your column...…"

Oct 21, 2012

Tom Svilans replied to Tom Svilans's discussion Volumetric stress analysis / form finding with meshes in the group karamba

"Thanks for your help, Clemens. I will continue looking. Quite interested in playing with karamba, though. I'll have to find an opportunity to look a bit closer. Best, Tom"

Sep 17, 2012

karamba replied to Tom Svilans's discussion Volumetric stress analysis / form finding with meshes in the group karamba

"Hi Tom, for this you have either to apply volume elements or do an approximate analysis by filling the space with beams or shells. Currently Karamba does not contain volume elements. Best, Clemens"

Sep 17, 2012

Tom Svilans replied to Tom Svilans's discussion Volumetric stress analysis / form finding with meshes in the group karamba

"Hi Clemens, thanks for the quick reply. Those still seem to be shell / membrane structures, whereas I'm interested in what goes on inside a closed, watertight mesh. Say if I've modeled a bespoke structural member with a wildly varying…"

Sep 14, 2012

karamba replied to Tom Svilans's discussion Volumetric stress analysis / form finding with meshes in the group karamba

"Hi Tom, take a look at the second and third example on http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/karamba/page/example-files: they include stress lines, force flow lines and iso lines. Best, Clemens"

Sep 14, 2012

Tom Svilans added a discussion to the group Millipede

3d stress analysis on closed meshes

Hi,I'm looking for a tool that will help me analyze arbitrary closed meshes of structural elements in order to find load paths and areas of stress for material optimization. Is this something that Millipede would be suited for? I am essentially trying to find a 3d version of 2d stress analysis (like Figs. 2 & 3 on the karamba front page: http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/karamba) to use with meshed data.Any tips or pointers would be…See More

Sep 14, 2012

0 Comments

Tom Svilans added a discussion to the group karamba

Volumetric stress analysis / form finding with meshes

Hi,I'm looking for a tool that will help me analyze arbitrary closed meshes of structural elements in order to find load paths and areas of stress for material optimization. Is this something that karamba would be suited for? I am essentially trying to find a 3d version of the 2d example of stress analysis (Figs. 2 & 3 on the karamba front page here) to use with meshed data.Any help or tips would be much appreciated!Thanks,Tom SvilansSee More

Sep 14, 2012

5 Comments

Tom Svilans joined karamba's group

karamba

Karamba is an interactiv, parametric finite element program for shell and beam structures.Current Version: 1.0.3 (March 13th 2013)See More

Sep 14, 2012

111 Comments

Tom Svilans joined Panagiotis Michalatos's group

Millipede

Millipede is a structural analysis and optimization component for grasshopper. It allows for very fast linear elastic analysis of frame and shell elements in 3d, 2d plate elements for in plane forces, and 3d volumetric elements. All systems can be optimized using built in topology optimization methods and have their results extracted and visualized in a variety of ways.In addition millipede implements a few basic geometric features [extraction of iso surface meshes from volumetric scalar fields…See More

Sep 14, 2012

Tom Svilans joined Daniel Piker's group