Version 3.3.1 is mainly a bug fix version of the 3.3 series.

1 Noticeable fixed issues that may affect the results obtained with previous versions

Ticket #256 reported that the scalar product of two unsymmetric tensors was not properly computed.

This may affect single crystal finite strain computations to a limited extent, as the Mandel stress tensor is almost symmetric.

2 New features in MTest

2.1 Unicode characters in MTest

Usage of a limited subsets of UTF-8 characters in variable names is now allowed. This subset is described here:

http://tfel.sourceforge.net/unicode.html

3 Tickets fixed

4 Ticket #255: Rate of gradients are not available in @Derivative for generic behaviours

For more details, see: https://sourceforge.net/p/tfel/tickets/255/

4.1 Ticket #248: Symbols of time derivative in explicit DSLs are wrong

The symbols associated with the time derivatives of state variables in explicit DSLs were ill-formed.

For more details, see: https://sourceforge.net/p/tfel/tickets/243/

4.2 Ticket #247: Creating array of typed parameters is broken

Creating an array of scalar parameters with a type different than real was broken.

For more details, see: https://sourceforge.net/p/tfel/tickets/247/

4.3 Ticket #243: Generic behaviour interface: throwing an exception in the initialize method is not properly handled

For more details, see: https://sourceforge.net/p/tfel/tickets/243/

4.4 Ticket #237: Compilation fails with intel compiler 2019 and 2020

For more details, see: https://sourceforge.net/p/tfel/tickets/237/

4.5 Ticket #235: Support for python bindings in conda

The conda’ python interpreter is statically linked, which causes issues on Mac Os if the python modules are linked with the python library. See for details https://github.com/ContinuumIO/anaconda-issues/issues/9078. However, not linking with the python library usually lead to link failures du to missing symbols and requires the use of specific linker flags, which causes portability issues.

A proper solution may only appear with CMake 3.15 with the Python::module target, see https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/issues/18100.

Until this version is widely available, the -Dpython-static-interpreter-workaround=ON can be used at the cmake invokation.

For more details, see: https://sourceforge.net/p/tfel/tickets/235/

4.6 Ticket #233: Allow unicode support in variable names in MTest

Unicode variables are now correctly handled by the @Real and @Evolution keywords.

For more details, see: https://sourceforge.net/p/tfel/tickets/233/

4.7 Ticket #232: Better support for the tangent operator blocks in the generic interface

The tangent operator blocks are now correctly handled.

For more details, see: https://sourceforge.net/p/tfel/tickets/232/

4.8 Ticket #227: Symbolic names are not declared for the tangent operator blocks associated with the derivatives with respect to external state variables

For more details, see: https://sourceforge.net/p/tfel/tickets/227/

4.9 Ticket #221: mfront-query --tangent-operator-blocks shall return the symbolic name of the tangent operator blocks

For more details, see: https://sourceforge.net/p/tfel/tickets/221/

4.10 Ticket #220: Declaring additional tangent operator blocks using symbolic names is broken

For more details, see: https://sourceforge.net/p/tfel/tickets/220/

4.11 Ticket #218: The generation of the copy constructor of the BehaviourData class is broken when several gradients are defined

For more details, see: https://sourceforge.net/p/tfel/tickets/218/

4.12 Ticket #217: Better support of several symmetric tensor gradients

The tangent operator blocks was not defined when several symmetric tensor gradients were defined.

For more details, see: https://sourceforge.net/p/tfel/tickets/217/

4.13 Ticket #216: Computation of the consistent tangent operator in the mtest::GenericBehaviour class is broken when several gradients are declared

For more details, see: https://sourceforge.net/p/tfel/tickets/216/

4.14 Ticket #215: UTF-8 representations of the tangent operator blocks are not declared

The tangent operator blocks now have proper symbolic representations.

For more details, see: https://sourceforge.net/p/tfel/tickets/215/

4.15 Ticket #214: Strings shall not be mangled

Unicode support is based on a mangling used to convert UTF-8 symbols into ANSYS characters. Strings are no more mangled.

For more details, see: https://sourceforge.net/p/tfel/tickets/214/

4.16 Ticket #211: Visual Studio Build Error for DIANAFEA

For more details, see: https://sourceforge.net/p/tfel/tickets/211/

4.17 Ticket #198: The mfront/src/MohrCoulombStressCriterion.cxx file does not compile in C++-17

For more details, see: https://sourceforge.net/p/tfel/tickets/198/