mechkit 0.4.1

Continuum mechanics toolkit

mechkit

The Python package mechkit is a toolkit for researchers in the field of continuum mechanics and material modeling. mechkit contains methods and operators for elementary tasks concerning tensor algebra and tensor notation, focusing on second- and fourth-order tensors.

Please see license, acknowledgment and cite the latest Zenodo-DOI.

Documentation

Documentation is given in the docs.

Examples

Rendered example notebooks are in the docs. These notebooks and corresponding scripts can be found here.

Installation

Install with pip following instructions on Python Package Index, i.e.,

pip install mechkit

or install from local files

• Clone this repository to your machine
• Open a terminal and navigate to your local clone
• Install the package from the local clone into the current environment in develop mode:

   python setup.py develop
  

Note: Develop vs. install

Acknowledgment

The research documented in this repository has been funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) - project number 255730231. The support by the German Research Foundation within the International Research Training Group “Integrated engineering of continuous-discontinuous long fiber reinforced polymer structures“ (GRK 2078) is gratefully acknowledged.