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Section: New Software and Platforms

MODULEF

Functional Description

The numerical method to approximate the constitutive laws for rubber elasticity derived from polymer physics are implemented in the Inria software Modulef.

It is based on : - algorithms from stochastic geometry to generate suitable polymer networks, - Delaunay tessellation algorithms to deal with steric effects (courtesy of the Inria project-team GAMMA2), - the introduction of 1-dimensional finite elements for the polymer-chains in Modulef.