ABSTRACT
MFree2D is a software package being developed by a team at the Centre for Advanced Computations in Engineering Science (ACES) at the National University of Singapore, based on meshfree technologies. It consists of three components-MFreePre, MFreeApp, and MFreePost. MFreePre is a preprocessor used to formulate the input required by MFreeApp. The latter performs computations and yields the output, which is then fed to MFreePost for postprocessing. These three processors work together seamlessly, and users are not usually aware that they are different processors. However, these three integrated processors can also be separated to perform their work independently. The current MFree2D 2.0 is limited to two-dimensional (2D) elastostatics. It runs on a PC in a Window environment. MFree2D was first showcased at the 4th International Asia-Pacific Conference on Computational Mechanics, which was held in Singapore in 1999. It is available for download at: http:==www.crcpress.com=e_products=downloads=download.asp? cat_no¼ 1238. MFree2D is currently a freeware with a user guide built in, but without technical
support. Interested readers should make their own arrangements with ACES. Because it is new and still in the development phase, the functions are changing quite frequently and, naturally, there are bugs. ACES is constantly trying to update the new developments and changes on its Web site. All users who are interested in trying or using this package are welcome to do so at their own risk, but are currently required by ACES to register and to agree on the terms and conditions set by ACES.
