New open-source ANSYS-SolidWorks-FLAC3D geometry conversion programs

Authors

Sławomir Bock, Główny Instytut Górnictwa (Central Mining Institute), Plac Gwarków 1, 40-166 Katowice, Poland

Author ORCID Identifier

Sławomir Bock 0000-0003-1288-335X

Abstract

Numerical calculations are used increasingly often to obtain a stress-strain state in many engineering problems. A popular program for this type of calculation which makes use of the finite difference method (a continuous method) is Itasca's FLAC3D. However, an important limitation of FLAC3D is the difficulty of geometry creation. This paper presents new open-source programs allowing the preparation of numerical models in a third-party software (ANSYS, SolidWorks) and their conversion to internal FLAC3D geometry files. The converters have been written in BASH-scripting language and published under the terms of the GNU General Public License, which allows the free distribution and/or modification of the software with some limitations.

Recommended Citation

Bock, Sławomir (2015) "New open-source ANSYS-SolidWorks-FLAC3D geometry conversion programs," Journal of Sustainable Mining: Vol. 14 : Iss. 3 , Article 2.
Available at: https://doi.org/10.46873/2300-3960.1237

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.