Object-oriented Programming Applied to the Development of Structural Analysis and Optimization Software

Abstract

This paper presents the development of a two-dimensional interactive software environment for structural analysis and optimization based on object-oriented programming using the C++ language. The main feature of the software is the effective integration of several computational tools into graphical user interfaces implemented in the Windows-98 and Windows-NT operating systems. The interfaces simplify data specification in the simulation and optimization of two-dimensional linear elastic problems. NURBS have been used in the software modules to represent geometric and graphical data. Extensions to the analysis of three-dimensional problems have been implemented and are also discussed in this paper

Object oriented programming: Concepts, limitations and application trends

“…This development era further led by coding practitioners to introduce various languages, all were classified within a single entity; object-oriented programming (OOP), suitable for building user interfaceswindows, buttons and menus [1]. The OOP language; C++ have been used to develop 2D and 3D interactive software environments for structural analysis by integrated computational approach into graphical user interfaces for Windows-98 and Windows-NT operating systems [2]. It also supports reusable interfaces, multithreading with better error-handling facilities, there by has been preferred to develop automation controllers, data processing, computational chemistry, physiology, biology, machine learning and statistical computing [3][4][5].…”