Since 2021 Salome-Meca has been released as a ‘Scibian9 Singularity container’, requiring the singularity environment to be installed before running the program. With this change, the program is available on all Linux distributions and on Windows systems (using WSL). It was supposed to be convenient and accessible, but the reality is different and many users…
I often read that free programs for FEA are good, but not for shell calculations. That’s where you need a proven, paid solver. In this article I want to check this, “Are open source programs (Code Aster and Calculix) suitable for shell calculations?”. Shell elements Shell elements are a type of finite element used in…
Hi there, new releases of Salome Meca (numbered 2022) are available at https://code-aster.org/ in the Download section and under the Salome-Meca tab. The last one is published in January 2023. At the moment there is no information about the new features introduced in this version. I have checked that the latest Salome Meca has a…
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…