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Welcome to OOF
Newsflash! OOF2 is now available for beta testing!
Download it from the OOF2 web page.
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Start with a micrograph... | ... select features in the image and assign
material properties to them... |
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... then perform a virtual experiment... |
... and measure and visualize the internal
stresses.
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What is it?
OOF is designed to help materials scientists calculate
macroscopic properties from images of real or simulated
microstructures. It is composed of two cooperating parts:
ppm2oof and oof. ppm2oof reads images in the ppm (Portable
Pixel Map) format and assigns material properties to features
in the image. oof conducts virtual experiments on the data
structures created by ppm2oof to determine the macroscopic
properties of the microstructure. Currently, the programs
calculate stresses and strains, but someday we hope to include
thermal, electric, and magnetic field calculations.
The programs are written in C++ and Python and benefit from an
object-oriented design. The underlying numerical solutions
rely on finite element technology. Hence the name OOF, for
object-oriented finite element analysis.
Downloads
There are now three separate versions of OOF
available. OOF2 is available for beta testing at the OOF2 page, and two versions of OOF1 are
still available on the download page.
The original version of OOF1 solves elasticity problems. The
thermal version solves elasticity and thermal diffusion
problems. OOF2 solves all these and more (eventually).
A program to convert OOF1 data files to ABAQUS input files is
available on the OOF2ABAQUS
page.
Status
The development status of OOF1 is Minimal
Maintenance. The status of OOF2 is Active
Development.
Mail
Information on how to join the OOF mailing list or contact the
authors can be found on our mailing list
page.
Please! Send us reprints, links and references to work
you are doing with OOF. Also, if you would like to write us
shameless praise for our program, we'll happily forward it to
our managers...
OOF was named one of the top 25 Technologies
of the Year by Industry Week magazine in December 1999.
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