Hermit
  • Getting started
  • Background
  • Architecture
  • Shape (mesh-coordinate) derivatives
  • Tutorials
    • Basic tutorials
      • Shell analysis walkthrough
    • Advanced tutorials
      • Thickness optimization and shape derivatives
  • Examples
    • Basic examples
      • Cantilever plate forward analysis
      • Composite cantilever plate
      • Fibre orientation and field output
      • Fibre orientation and strain-field frames (with plots)
    • Advanced examples
      • Thickness optimization
    • Verification benchmarks
      • Verification suite
      • Reference values
      • Analytic compliance gradient of a thin cantilever plate.
      • Cantilever plate under a tip force
      • Cantilever plate under a tip moment
      • Cantilever plate under uniform pressure
      • Clamped circular plate under uniform pressure.
      • Clamped square plate under uniform pressure.
      • Classical-lamination-theory ABD assembly
      • Cook’s membrane
      • Navier bending solution for a symmetric cross-ply laminate
      • MacNeal-Harder curved beam (out-of-plane load)
      • Elastic-energy and compliance identity
      • Nodal-thickness compliance gradient versus central finite differences.
      • Hyperbolic-paraboloid cantilever: restored warped-quad consistency
      • An isotropic-ply laminate matches an isotropic shell
      • Mass and centre of gravity of a plate with uniform and graded thickness
      • Compliance-optimal cantilever taper: recovering the analytic exponent
      • Pinched cylinder with end diaphragms
      • Pinched hemisphere with an 18-degree hole
      • Pinched hemisphere with an 18-degree hole (quadrilaterals)
      • Scordelis-Lo roof
      • Scordelis-Lo roof (quadrilateral control)
      • Shape derivative of failure index for direction-oriented laminates.
      • Mesh-coordinate compliance derivative versus central finite differences.
      • Simply supported square plate under a sinusoidal pressure.
      • Simply supported square plate under uniform pressure.
      • Thin-limit transverse-shear study for a simply supported plate.
      • Tsai-Wu transverse-shear failure in a uniaxially loaded laminate
      • MacNeal-Harder twisted beam (out-of-plane)
      • Warped quadrilateral cells preserve rigid-body consistency
  • API reference
    • hermit
      • hermit.bcs
      • hermit.csdl_helpers
      • hermit.domain
      • hermit.failure
      • hermit.fenics
        • hermit.fenics.assembly
        • hermit.fenics.bcs
        • hermit.fenics.elastic_model
        • hermit.fenics.kinematics
        • hermit.fenics.maps
        • hermit.fenics.material
        • hermit.fenics.ops
        • hermit.fenics.shell_pde
        • hermit.fenics.solvers
        • hermit.fenics.spaces
        • hermit.fenics.stress
      • hermit.loads
      • hermit.material
      • hermit.outputs
      • hermit.transfer
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