The Python package mechkit is a toolkit for researchers
in the field of continuum mechanics and material modeling.
mechkit contains methods and operators
for elementary tasks concerning tensor algebra and tensor notation,
focusing on second- and fourth-order tensors.
Please see license, acknowledgment and cite the latest Zenodo-DOI.
Documentation is given in the docs.
Rendered example notebooks are in the docs. These notebooks and corresponding scripts can be found here.
Install with pip following instructions on Python Package Index, i.e.,
pip install mechkitor install from local files
- Clone this repository to your machine
- Open a terminal and navigate to your local clone
- Install the package from the local clone into the current environment in develop mode:
python setup.py develop
Note: Develop vs. install
The research documented in this repository has been funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) - project number 255730231. The support by the German Research Foundation within the International Research Training Group “Integrated engineering of continuous-discontinuous long fiber reinforced polymer structures“ (GRK 2078) is gratefully acknowledged.