The significant resources spent on programming computational mechanics codes CANNOT be fully exploited without:
- Constant upgradation and maintenance.
- Compatibility with emerging hardware.
- Complete documentation including technical and reference manuals, Sample test cases and tutorials
- Available commercial software packages unable to fully support the analysis requirements of the nuclear energy related programmes.
- Absence of source code makes upgradation and integration difficult.
- Thus, the need to develop and archive the knowledge generated by in-house codes and make it accessible to designers, analysts and developers of finite element codes.
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There are a number of dedicated computational engineering centres globally. These centres have:
- Emerged as centres of excellence
- Supported development of cutting edge technologies
- Generated and compiled information for govt.
- Promoted interdisciplinary research
Several useful packages developed by IITs / IISc in the past. But they suffer from:
- Insufficient generality due to limited objectives of the project
- Not user friendly
- Across different platforms
- Material & element libraries not developed further
- Inconsistencies in input and outputs
- Lack of visualization aids