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Structural Meshing

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Tools to generate meshes for FE Analysis in grasshopper

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My Role

Computational Designer @ AKT II


Year

2021


During my time at AKT II, as part of the development of a grasshopper based interoperability toolkit, a side project has been developing tools for FE meshing. Some FE packages, especially sofistik, can generate quality quad meshes but others are a bit unreliable. Driving the model from a core GH definition posed the need to create good meshes for FEA in the grasshopper environment. To do this I have developed various tools, both using external utilities or custom algorithms. Some examples are shown below.


Triangle.NET

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GMSH

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Custom Algorithms

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