Z88 is a fast, powerful and compact Finite Elements Analysis Program especially designed for PC running the great LINUX, workstations and large computers with UNIX and PCs with WindowsXP/95.

Z88 features 20 finite element types covering plane stress, plate bending, axial symmetric structures and spacial structures up to 20-node Serendipity hexahedrons. Z88 comes with a user-friendly interface (the Z88 Commander), a powerful net generator, a DXF converter, a plot program and, of course, the FEA solver featuring an in-situ Cholesky solver along with the Jennings storage method. For large structures the new iteration solver is recommended. Import of COSMOS files from Pro/ENGINEER (with option Pro/MESH).

The new version Z88 10.0 for UNIX, LINUX and Windows is GNU GPL Freeware. Z88 is handcoded using pure ANSI-C and the true Windows API or UNIX-, X-, Xt- and Xm- calls.

[fork wrench designed with isoparametric Serendipity plane stress elements Nr.7 and motorcycle crankshaft designed with isoparametric Serendipity tetrahedron elements Nr.16 with 10 nodes each]

The Z88 philosophy Fast and compact: Developed for PC, no ported mainframe system Flexible and transparent: Controlled by text files "Small is beautifull" - a modular system vs. monolithic monsters native UNIX and Windows programs, no emulation UNIX and Windows programs use the same computing kernels Full data exchange from and to CAD systems with DXF-Interface mesh import from Pro/ENGINEER Context sensitive online-help under Windows and UNIX No copy protection, no annoying passwords Simplest installation: No subdirectories, no change of system files Under UNIX: Automatic control and cumulative runs possible