OOFEM - Object Oriented Finite Element Solver

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History and Credits

History | Credits

OOFEM has been under continuous development since 1997. The project started as part of my PhD thesis on computational modeling of concrete structures. OOFEM has been developped at Cech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Structural Mechanics.

The initial source of inspiration at the beginning (1993), was FEM_Object  program, written by T. Zimmermann and Y. Dubois-Pelerin, from which some ideas and routines are used.

The people listed below have made significant contributions to oofem by working long and hard to make quality software for the rest of the world to use.

Borek Patzak, (OOFEM Architect, Project Leader, coding, documentation, testing)
Zdenek Bittnar and Daniel Rypl, (special thanks for valuable comments on the functionality and documentation)
Milan Jirasek, (Sloan renumbering, stimulating discussions)
Petr Bittnar, for valuable help with css
Simon Rolshoven, (Drucker Prager plasticity model)
Ladislav Svoboda, (hanging nodes)
Jaroslav Kruis, (implementation of some elements)
Jiri Nemecek, (microplane model implementation)
Peter Grassl, (truss2d improvements)
Richard Vondracek, (implementation of Direct Sparse Solver)
Jose E. Roman, Francisco Alvaro, (interface to SLEPc)
Ruzena Chamrova, (implementation of XFEM support)
Martin Horak, (nonlinear formulation of some elements)
Darwin Martinez and Oswaldo Meneses, (translation of User manual to Spanish)

If you would like to help OOFEM being better, there are number of ways how to contribute to OOFEM.