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Transforming of an existing structural analysis program to the object-oriented framework. (English) Zbl 1173.74049

Summary: The object-oriented philosophy abstracts out the essential immutable qualities of the components of the finite element method into classes of objects. It facilitates easy modification capability without creating a ripple effect on the whole program, and reduces the necessity of knowledge of the source code to a minimum level. This paper presents a prototype implementation of the development of a flexible computational platform based on an object-oriented approach and its application in a FORTRAN environment, which facilitates use of previously developed components. IDARC3D which is capable of linear and nonlinear, static as well as dynamic analyses of multistory three-dimensional buildings with, or without, energy dissipation devices developed in FORTRAN with conventional programming practices has been transformed to the object-oriented framework. By using the new object-oriented platform, some representative examples were analysed, and the results were compared with the well-known software facilities.

MSC:

74S99 Numerical and other methods in solid mechanics
74K99 Thin bodies, structures
68N19 Other programming paradigms (object-oriented, sequential, concurrent, automatic, etc.)
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