Download the software
The code can be easily used on Windows
- Latest release: fossilsetup.exe
Usage
- How to install the software?
- How to run the examples with fossils?
- How to run the examples with Metafor?
- How to create a new "boneload" simulation?
- How to run a simulation from the command line?
- How to create another kind of FE simulation in fossils?
- How to build fossils?
Documentation
Calculation of the muscle-induced forces
References
This work has been done through a collaboration between the EDDy Lab (Prof. Valentin Fisher) and the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (R. Boman, J.-P. Ponthot) at the University of Liège.
- V. Gaudichon - Uncovering the functional disparity of Cretaceous marine reptiles via finite element analysis. Thesis of Master II Paleontology Poitiers-Montpellier 2020-2021.
- V. Gaudichon et al. Uncovering the biomechanical disparity of Cretaceous marine reptile feeding via finite element analysis. 69th Symposium on Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy - September 2021.
- Metafor.