gmsh

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.

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.

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.

Using my gmshtranslator python tool to interface gmsh with opensees.

Mon, 26 Feb 2018 by jaabell / Tutorials

I wrote the gmshtranslator tool a while back during my …