The Material Model Laboratory

What is it?

The material model laboratory (Matmodlab2) is a material point simulator developed as a tool for developing and analyzing material models for use in larger finite element codes.

System Requirements

Matmodlab2 has been built and tested extensively on several versions of linux and the Apple Mac OSX 10 operating systems.

Required Software

Matmodlab2 requires the following software installed for your platform:

• Python (3.5 or newer) or newer

• Numpy

• Scipy

Matmodlab2 is developed and tested using the Anaconda Python distributions.

Optional Software

• Pandas

• py.test

Installation

The easiest way to get started with Matmodlab2 is to clone or download Matmodlab2 from the repository, navigate to the matmodlab2 directory, and execute

python setup.py install

which will install Matmodlab2 to your Python package's site-packages directory. Optionally, execute

python setup.py develop

and source files files are linked to the Python interpreter’s site-packages, rather than copied. This way, changes made to source files are applied immediately and do not require you to re-install Matmodlab2.

Another method to "install" Matmodlab2 is to simply set the PYTHONPATH environment variable to the matmodlab2 directory.

Documentation

The documentation consists of Jupyter notebooks contained in the matmodlab2/notebooks directory and vieweable at Introduction to Matmodlab

Troubleshooting

If you experience problems when building/installing/testing Matmodlab2, you can ask help from Tim Fuller [email protected]