WELCOMES TO Z88 !
Z88
for
Windows
and LINUX/UNIX is Freeware and is protected by the GNU General Public
License, see next pages.
Z88 is compact and fast and was
developed for PCs
initially. Today, Z88 runs properly on PCs with LINUX and Windows
starting with
Windows95 to
Z88 has deliberately been
designed as a compact and
fast system. Thus, its use is restricted to static calculations. Z88
does not
want to compete with professional FEA programs for workstation or
mainframes
which can do really everything, but are hardly payable and complicated
to
operate. While you are still puzzling about installation and start of
some
programs of this genre also in the PC class, you have already
calculated the
first examples with Z88. And the online-help is always only one
keystroke or
mouse click away. The Z88 system may operate with English or German
language
depending on your setting (ENGLISH or GERMAN) in the file Z88.DYN.
The new version 13 looks quite
similar to version 13
but the plot program is enhanced and two sparse matrix solvers with
improved
speed are included. In addition, now complete 64 bit support is
supplied for Windows,
LINUX and UNIX. Thus, you may compute FE structures with millions of
DOF with
an ordinary PC. Z88 for Windows comes ready-to-run for 32 bit XP and
Vista and
for 64 bit
If you already have FEA
experiences, you can start at
once. If you are a beginner in this area, i would recommend secondary
literature. Here are a few choices:
Zienkiewicz, O.C.;
Taylor, R.L.:
The Finite Element Method, Volumes 1-3,
5th edition, Butterworth- Heinemann and
John Wiley & Sons, 2000
Bathe,K.J.: Finite Elemente
Procedures. Prentice Hall, 1995
Rieg,F.; Hackenschmidt, R.:
Finite Elemente Analyse für Ingenieure. Hanser- Verlag, München Wien
2009, 3rd
edition (in German language)
If you’ll improve Z88 please
give me your feedback. If
you want to compile Z88 for UNIX any C compiler along with a GTK+ and a OpenGL library should
work fine. If you want to compile Z88 for Windows any kind of C or C++
compiler
should work fine - i've tested the free LCC
and the C/C++ compilers from Microsoft and Intel.
And because Z88 is bound to the
GNU General Public
License you are to present your improvements and modifications to the
public
including the source code - that's a point of honor. Promote the idea
of the
free software according to GNU-GPL! Please see www.z88.de.
Professor Dr. Frank Rieg
Lehrstuhl Konstruktionslehre und
CAD
(Chair for Engineering Design
and CAD)
www.uni-bayreuth.de/departments/konstruktionslehre
University of Bayreuth
frank.rieg@uni-bayreuth.de