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`MFront` is a code generator which translates a set of closely related
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domain specific languages into plain C++ on top of the `TFEL`
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library. Those languages covers three kind of material knowledge:
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- material properties (for instance the
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Young modulus, the thermal conductivity, etc.)
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- mechanical behaviours. Numerical performances of
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generated mechanical behaviours was given a particular
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attention. Various benchmarks shows that `MFront`
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implementations are competitive with native implementations
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available in the `Cast3M`, `Code-Aster` and `Cyrano3` solvers.
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- simple point-wise models, such as material swelling
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used in fuel performance codes.
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`MFront` comes with an handy easy-to-use tool called `MTest` that can
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test the local behaviour of a material, by imposing independent
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constraints on each component of the strain or the stress. This tool
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has been much faster (from ten to several hundred times depending on
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the test case) than using a full-fledged finite element solver.
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WWW: http://tfel.sourceforge.net/
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