Installation

These instructions will get you a copy of planestress up and running on your machine. You will need a working copy of python 3.9, 3.10 or 3.11 to get started.

Installing planestress

planestress uses shapely to prepare the plane-stress geometry and gmsh to generate a triangular or rectangular mesh. numpy and scipy are used to aid finite element computations, while matplotlib and rich are used for post-processing. Finally, click is used to power the planestress CLI.

planestress and all of its dependencies can be installed through the python package index:

pip install planestress