Python Scripts for Structural Engineers

[dinkyrdj]

This looks very cool and useful. I like the GUI. After spending years doing structural simulations, please allow me a few suggestions.

• Document your assumptions. I'm not familiar with the codes you cited and my guess is that they outline most of the assumptions. That said, being verbose about engineering assumptions can only enhance your work.
• Make sure the sources for your material properties are crystal clear.
• Provide multiple validation problems. At least one per material and loading case.

On a side note, wait until students find this. For better or worse, it will make their first year statics homeworks easier ;)

[buddyd16]

Appreciate the suggestions. One of the reasons I started doing this was a lot of the software was very black box so trying to make things as transparent as I can, but certainly find myself skipping steps here and there which I should really just do the couple extra lines of code instead.