Development of a user-friendly interface for the creation of user elements
Commercial finite element packages like Ansys allow the users to develop new elements if desired elements are not available in the in-built libraries. This paper describes the development of a user friendly program by interfacing Mathematica package with Ansys to make the user element capability considerably generalised, and more efficient.
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