Melosh, Zienkiewicz and Cheung developed a popular 4-noded plate rectangle which is known as MZC plate element. MAT-fem developed a Matlab program for FEM analysis of thin plate with the MZC element.
I just converted the Matlab code into Python language and added some features.
- Generates a PDF report file. The PDF file consists of results summary and contour plots.
- Generates .vtk post-process file which can be opened by ParaView, a open-source data analysis and visualization application.
- At present there is no preprocessor for the FEM analysis. Program is getting input data from a text file. Need to work on preprocessor software integration to the python program or to build its own.