Hi,

Despite the fact that commercial FE codes are the best candidates to model problems in mechanics and physics but most researchers and scientists around the globe cannot afford them, they are expensive and costly, but in exchange they represent a powerful tools, user friendly thanks to their advanced interfaces and incorporating most material models implemented in their roots.

The best alternatives to commercial FE codes are open source codes, most of them had been significantly improved over time, some of them had already been incorporated in Linux version "CAE Linux" (download: https://www.caelinux.com/CMS3/).

Warp3D is being given credit as the best open source FE code especially to solve problems in Fracture Mechanics, this code is used along with other open source tools (ex: Fortran compilers,….), meshing tools (ex: Cubit, ...) and data visualization tools (ex: Paraview,....), a complete tool box can be installed via Cygwin (download at: https://www.cygwin.com/). Warp3D can be downloaded along with manuals and tutorials (see: http://www.warp3d.net/).

If a researchers and students need to refer to an open source code, Warp3D can be the best choice, but running it successfully on your computing machine doesn't seem an easy task, like any other open source code, one have to afford a little bit efforts to master it, but first we need to gather all the other tools and learn step by step how to model a particular problem using it, since it is a FE code, one need to have a minimum knowledge about the FE analysis steps, then running it became a straight-forward task.

If there is any person interested in mastering these open source codes, especially Warp3D, it would be my pleasure to collaborate in order to make use of it in our research activities.

Keep me up to date

Thanks