OOF is designed to help materials scientists calculate macroscopic properties from images of real or simulated microstructures. It reads an image, assigns material properties to features in the image, and conducts virtual experiments to determine the macroscopic properties of the microstructure.

OOF3D generalizes the popular but two-dimensional OOF2 to three dimensions, using a stack of 2D images to create a three dimensional microstructure. It includes a basic subset of the features of OOF2. 

The programs are written in C++ and Python and benefit from an object-oriented design. The underlying numerical solutions rely on finite element technology. Hence the name OOF, for object-oriented finite element analysis.

python, C++, swig

Principal Developers
Steve Langer    
Applied and Computational Mathematics Division
Information Technology Laboratory
NIST

Andrew Reid    
Materials Science and Engineering Division
Material Measurement Laboratory
NIST

Günay Doğan    
Applied and Computational Mathematics Division
Information Technology Laboratory
NIST

R. Edwin García    
School of Materials Engineering
Purdue University

Developers Emeritus

Yannick Congo
Applied and Computational Mathematics Division
Information Technology Laboratory
NIST

Valerie R. Coffman    
Applied and Computational Mathematics Division
Information Technology Laboratory
NIST

Rhonald Lua    
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Penn State University
NIST MSEL guest researcher

Seung-Ill Haan    
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
NIST CTCMS guest researcher

Andy Roosen    
Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory
NIST

Students
Lucianna Kiffer    
Tulane University
NIST SURF program

Kyle Stemen    
Kent State University
NIST SURF program

Olga Kuznetsova    
University of Maryland
NIST SURF program

Daniel Vlacich
Kang-Xing Jin
Kevin Chang
Eric Ma    Science Magnet Program
Montgomery Blair High School
Silver Spring, MD

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Stephen Langer, Andrew Reid, Valerie R. Coffman, Rhonald Lua (2022), "OOF3D: Finite Element Analysis of 3D Microstructures," https://nanohub.org/resources/oof3d. (DOI: 10.21981/XQ1V-ZZ35).

  BibTex | EndNote

1. Finite Element Method/Analysis (FEM)
2. OOF2
3. OOF2 Finite Elements deformation materials
4. OOF3D
5. tool:oof2
6. tool:oof3d