OpenSees
URL : http://opensees.berkeley.edu/
Description
OpenSees (Open System for Earthquake Engineering Simulation) is a
community-developed software framework for earthquake engineering
applications in structural and geotechnical engineering. OpenSees is
intended to facilitate improvements in the state-of-the-art of
computational simulation within the earthquake engineering community,
and this powerful software framework has seen great improvements in its
capabilities over the last few years. Because OpenSees is an
open-source software development effort, researchers and practitioners
of earthquake engineering can readily add new features to this powerful
software tool. OpenSees includes a wide variety of linear and nonlinear
elements for both frame and continuum analysis, and material models
appropriate for earthquake engineering applications.
Features
OpenSees is designed to be scalable, and runs well on shared-memory
computers, including both Windows and Unix platforms. Visualization and
supporting tools are under development within the PEER project, and
will be made available to the OpenSees community.
Pricing and Software Metrics
- OpenSees is an open-source software framework, so it is
available from the OpenSees website at no charge
- Software quality for OpenSees is of Community grade
- Supported platforms include Unix and Windows