OpenSees

All about tetrahedral elements

Thu, 31 Aug 2023 by jaabell / OpenSees

This tutorial explores the advantages on using high-order meshes for finite-element modeling of solids using continuum formulations.

Building the Ultimate OpenSees Rig: HPC Cluster SUPERCOMPUTER Using Gaming Workstations!

Fri, 25 Aug 2023 by jaabell / OpenSees

In this video, I take you on a behind-the-scenes tour of my custom-built cluster, designed specifically for high-performance parallel computing using OpenSees.

Animate transient results with gmsh2opensees

Mon, 05 Dec 2022 by jaabell / OpenSees

Another tutorial on leveraging the power of OpenSeesPy with gmsh and my library gmsh2opensees. In this one we also look into performing transient analysis in OpenSeesPy with a simple model.

Using OpenSeesPy with gmsh in python

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 by jaabell / OpenSees

In this tutorial, I teach you how to create wonderful continuum FE models in OpenSeesPy using gmsh as pre and post-processor. We'll be using my new module gmsh2opensees.

Advanced seismic analysis with H5DRM OpenSees load pattern

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 by jaabell / OpenSees

Check out the new H5DRM load pattern for DRM-based seismic analysis on OpenSees. You can find the documentation and all the example files here.

DRM stands for the Domain Reduction Method. It is a game-changer for seismic analysis. The DRM allows the analyst to subject their soil-structure systems to earthquake input featuring rich 3D motions. That is, you're no-longer restricted to assuming that the in-coming seismic wave-field is a planar wave, which is what 99% of analysis nowadays still assume. This is very important for several types of structures, for example as I showed was true for nuclear power plants subjected to near-field earthquake motions.

Building OpenSees and OpenSeesPy on Ubuntu 22.04 using CMAKE

Wed, 17 Aug 2022 by jaabell / OpenSees

In this short video I teach you how to compile the latest OpenSees and OpenSeesPy on Ubuntu Linux 22.04.

Compilation is setup with no "bells and whistles", meaning its not optimized in any way and does not include any extra features.

The history file mentioned in the video can be found here and this is the CMakeLists.tex file.

EOSD2022 Recap

Tue, 19 Jul 2022 by jaabell / OpenSees

The Eurasian OpenSees days 2022 conference was a lot of fun! Especially because I had the opportunity to go with two students: Omar Oyarce and Alberto Hurtado (shown in the picture above with professor Pedro Arduino from University of Washington, Seattle) and show them what this little academic niche is all about.

EOSD2022 Summer School SSI Modeling

Wed, 06 Jul 2022 by jaabell / OpenSees

Short applicative lecture given at Eurasian OpenSees Days 2022 in Turin, Italy on July 6th.

Supplementary material:

Slides
mshopstools.py - A toy library to interface gmsh with openseespy.
workshop-ssi1.geo - SSI gmsh .geo (geometry) file for the application.
workshop-ssi1.msh - SSI gmsh .msh (mesh) file for the application, generated from the above file without any modifications.
workshop-ssi1.py - Python script that reads the .msh file and creates and runs the OpenSees model using openseespy.

Buidling a computer cluster for OpenSees

Tue, 07 Jun 2022 by jaabell / OpenSees

As part of my recently-awarded research grant where I'll study the effects of near-field earthquakes in Santiago Chile (more on that in the future, maybe) I'm building a small cluster of computers (a beowulf cluster).

New 2021 additions to OpenSees

Tue, 28 Dec 2021 by jaabell / OpenSees

2021 has almost gone, I haven't written on my blog almost all year, but there has been progress! I've made a bunch of small contributions this year to OpenSees (see all contributions here) but two big ones: a new material model for high-cyclic analysis of sands (SANISAND-MS with my collaborators at TU Delft, NGI and Bristol, see here) and added isogeometric analysis (IGA) of shells capabilities. This last contribution is very recent and is still (as of writing this) in pull request mode. I'll let some time pass, for possible review, before I definitely merge into main OpenSees.

Compiling OpenSees 3.2.0 on Ubuntu 20.10: a tutorial and commentary

Tue, 01 Dec 2020 by jaabell / OpenSees

In this short video I teach you how to compile OpenSees 3.2.0 on Ubuntu Linux 20.10.

Compilation is setup with no "bells and whistles", meaning its not optimized in any way and does not include any extra features.

The history file mentioned in the video can be found here and this is the Makefile.def.

Check out Silvia's Brainery and Michael Scott's blog for more awesome OpenSees stuff!

STKO OpenSees review

Mon, 30 Nov 2020 by jaabell / OpenSees

A created a short #review of STKO: a pre/post processor for #OpenSees which I think is really cool and brings fresh new stuff into OpenSees to benefit all. https://t.co/EnMAVAnRya
— José Antonio Abell (@RealJoseAbell) November 30, 2020