In an article with free FEM packages, I listed three programs worth looking into (link to article): Salome Meca, PrePoMax and Freecad Workbench FEM. In today’s article I will describe the second of these. About PrePoMax PrePoMax is a pre and post processor for the Calculix solver. It has recently become more popular and is…
Hi, today I present you another simple example using Salome Meca’s free, open source software with the Code Aster solver. This time it is a 3D type analysis: a thick plate under pressure. This example comes from benchmarks from the Nafems organization and is used to validate MES programs. Thick Plate under Pressure Above is…
My first tutorial in the Salome Meca and Code Aster software. This is a plate with an elliptical hole, done as a 2d plane stress analysis. There are very similar cases on the internet (plate with hole) solved with this program, but I have 3 reasons to make this case. Firstly, the videos there are…
Salome or Salome Meca? Or maybe Code Aster? I often see mistakes in understanding the names of these programmes, so today I will try to explain this. The article is a repeat of the knowledge included in two already published articles (1 and 2) but here I will present it in a broader form. You…
Salome Meca is an open source FEA package integrating Salome (pre- and post-processor) and Code Aster (solver). It is a free finite element analysis program with the greatest capabilities. You can read more about the Salome Meca package in my review of free MES software. Windows Subsystem for Linux Since version 2021, the program requires…
Salome Meca is an open source FEA package integrating Salome (pre- and post-processor) and Code_aster (solver). It is a free finite element analysis program with the greatest calculation capabilities. You can read more about Salome-Meca and other packages in my review of open source FEM analysis packages. The latest version of Salome Meca is 2021.1….