Why Akantu ?
Finite-Element library dedicated to damage, contact and micro-mechanics
Akantu fulfills the requirements of genericity, robustness and efficiency needed for intensive simulations
Accuracy and speed
combined together
Akantu means a little element in Kinyarwanda, a Bantu language. It is also an opensource object-oriented Finite Element library. Akantu was born with the vision to associate flexibility, robustness and efficiency, thanks to its characteristic architecture.
A unique C++ object-oriented design combines high-level classes and interfaces with optimized critical loops acting on degrees of freedom. It makes Akantu‘s unique implementation both object oriented and vectorized.
Accessing the code
Akantu is freely available under the LGPL licence.
You can redistribute and/or modify Akantu. It is distributed in the hope that it will be useful.
The source code is accessible at https://gitlab.com/akantu/akantu.
Getting started with tutorials
This tutorial which prepares a plate with a stress concentration due to a circular hole.
This tutorial prepares mode-I crack opening with a cohesive zone model governing the interfacial elements inserted on the fly during crack propagation.
Check out our growing list of tutorials
Contribute to Akantu
If it seems that the code contains an error, you can post on the forum.
Any new feature and/or bug fix is welcome with a gitlab pull request
Akantu’s 4.0 is out!
Akantu has reached a new milestone with the official release of Akantu 4.0 ! The repository has officially migrated to GitLab !
The development team is proud to introduce the new python interface which greatly improve Akantu’s accessibility. In addition, tutorials based on the python interface are available to help newcomers to the Akantu community to get started!
Two major features are introduced in this version:
a mesh-independant damage model for brittle fracture that can handle complex crack networks
handling the contact between bodies
Do not hesitate to contact the LSMS laboratory at EPFL
or at akantu@akantu.ch
Akantu’s community of users
Our community is composed of invested people for open-source research all around the world.
Development is a collective effort