This page provides several links to available documentations regarding TFEL and MFront, which are fairly detailed. Unfortunately, most of these materials are written in French. They also mostly refer to versions 2.0.x, and thus do not describe the latest available version.

For a new (English speaking) user, we would highly recommend:

• Read the reference paper [1]. Although this paper covers versions 2.0.x, it gives an good general overview of TFEL and MFront’s abilities.
• Read the getting-started page.
• Read the page dedicated to second and fourth order tensors, here.
• Have a look at the gallery which details the implementations of various classical mechanical behaviours. Those implementations are kept up-to-date to use the latest developments and techniques introduced in TFEL and MFront.
• If none of the implementations described in the gallery match the user need, one may have a look at the implementations provided in the mfront/tests/behaviours directory in the sources. Beware that those implementations are not updated on purpose to ensure backward compatibility. Most of them can be simplified by using bricks.
• Finally, you may want to have a look at the documentation of the interface of the solver that you plan to use (see below for links).

For spanish users, Jordi Alberich have written “A spanish introduction to MFront and Salome-MECA”, which is available here.

References

• General introduction. Material properties and Models: mfront.pdf
• Writing mechanical behaviours: behaviours.pdf
• How to handle plane stress in implicit schemes: planestress.pdf
• Finite strain behaviours finitestrain.pdf
• MTest user guide: mtest.pdf

Tutorials

• A fairly complete tutorial is available here (in French).
• For spanish users, Jordi Alberich have written “A spanish introduction to MFront and Salome-MECA”, which is available here.

Courses

• General introduction: mfront-presentation.pdf
• Writing mechanical behaviours mfront-behaviours.pdf
• General introduction mfront-formation.pdf
  • tp.pdf

Talks

• Finite strain: mfront-finitestrain.pdf
• Writing portable behaviours

A github repository has been set up to store various documents describing TFEL and MFront usage. The talks of the first and second MFront Users are available there:

https://github.com/thelfer/tfel-doc

Solver interfaces

• The description of the interface to the Cast3M finite element solver is available here.
• The description of the interface to the Code-Aster finite element solver is available here.
• The description of the interface to the Abaqus/Standard and Abaqus/Explicit finite element solvers is available here.
• The description of the interface to the ZeBuLoN finite element solver is available here.
• The description of the interface to the CalculiX finite element solver is available here.

Dedicated pages

• Support for unicode symbols in MFront is described here.
• The list of predefined type aliases in MFront is given here.

Bibliography