Saber El Arem (node/14053 ) wanted to know how a fractal surface mesh could be created.
I've had to do that in the past. What I did was to use Arjun Viswanathan's 1999 Matlab snippet on creating a plasma fractal and write a wrapper around it to create an output file that could be read by the then available version of Abaqus.
I've attached a couple of Matlab files that should be able to do the job. The .txt extensions are needed because iMechanica does not accept files with .m extensions.
An example of a surface generated using these codes is:
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| createAbaqusInput.m.txt | 19.15 KB |
| createSingleRoughSurf.m.txt | 16.98 KB |