FRAME3DD: a frame analysis program
FRAME3DD is a program for the static and dynamic structural analysis of two- and three-dimensional frames and trusses with elastic and geometric stiffness.
FRAME3DD reads an Input Data file, containing joint coordinates, member geometry, material moduli, restrained joints, prescribed displacements, load information, and optionally, mass information if a modal analysis is to be carried out.
FRAME3DD appends results to an Output Data File, The Output Data recapitulates the input information, gives joint displacements in global coordinates, member end-forces in local coordinates, reactions in global coordinates, and natural frequencies and mode shapes in global coordinates.
For usage information, see the User Manual, included with both the source code and binary installer packages.
Additional output files from FRAME3DD are directed by default to the temporary
file folder (according to the %TEMP% env var on Windows, or /tmp on other
platforms). You can specify an alternative location for output files by setting
the environment variable FRAME3DD_OUTDIR.
Note that you require write permissions for the input file in order that FRAME3DD can append its calculation results to that file.
Developer's guide
Requirements
Minimal requirements: scons, build-essential
Recommended: cppunit
Build
To build FRAME3DD just run scons
License
FRAME3DD is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software Foundation. FRAME3DD is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License (GPL) for details.
You should have obtained this distribution from SourceForge.net
svn co https://frame3dd.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/frame3dd frame3dd
Contents
Included in this distribution:
LICENSE.txt |
GNU GPL license |
README.txt |
this file |
SConstruct |
optionally used for compiling and building distribution using scons http://www.scons.org/ |
frame3dd.spec |
build specification for scons, includes changelog |
save.plt |
Gnuplot macro for saving Gnuplot plots as PostScript |
doc/ |
documentation (in HTML format) |
examples/ |
examples of FRAME input/output files |
scons/ |
used by scons to build distribution |
src/ |
C source code |
To compile and build without scons:
gcc -O -Wall -o frame3dd main.c frame3dd.c frame3dd_io.c ldl_dcmp.c lu_dcmp.c coordtrans.c eig.c hpgUtils.c nrutil.c -lm
About the authors
FRAME3DD author
© 1992-2008 Henri Gavin - Associate Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Edmund T. Pratt School of Engineering Duke University - Box 90287, Durham, NC 27708-0287
mailto:Henri.Gavin@Duke.edu - tel: 919-660-5201 - fax: 919-660-5219
Packaging, microstran parser and more
Packaging of FRAME3DD for distribution on Linux and Windows, as well as implementation of the Microstran file parsers is by John Pye, 2007-2013.
John Pye Department of Engineering Australian National University mailto:john.pye@anu.edu.au http://jpye.dyndns.org/