FEAPB (Finite Element Analysis of Piezoelectric Beams) is a software for solving linear static, modal and dynamic three-dimensional piezoelectric beam problems. FEAPB is the outcome of a European Erasmus Mundus project on "Higher Order Finite Elements for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Beams" (find the theory in the directory "Theory_Behind_FEAPB"), carried out at the Civil & Computational Engineering Centre in Swansea University, UK.
FEAPB has been specifically designed to be used as a GUI-based application and not as a front-end API, and solely for educational purposes. Although, pull requests, issues and bug reports are always welcome, the source code is distributed just for convenience as part of the open-source license.
FEAPB has been developed in full compliance with ISO C++11 and the use of following open-source graphical/numerical linear algebra libraries is highly appreciated:
Eigen 3.2.0 http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/ MPL2
Qt 5.1.0 http://qt-project.org/ LGPL
Boost 1.5.4 http://www.boost.org/ Boost (BSL)
QCustomPlot 1.0.1 http://www.qcustomplot.com/ GPL
The user-interface (FEAPB.exe) has been successfully tested on Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. The run-time libraries provided are for MS Windows.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
Roman Poya, A. J. Gil and P. D. Ledger, A computational framework for the analysis of linear piezoelectric beams using hp-FEM, Computers and Structures, DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2015.01.012