The OOF object-oriented finite element software, developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, provides an interactive FEM tool which packages sophisticated mathematical capabilities with a user-interface that speaks the language of materials science.

Users can assign material properties to the constituent phases of a microstructural image, and then construct finite-element meshes from these images, in either 2D or 3D. The tool then allows users to perform virtual experiments using a variety of boundary conditions to explore structure-property relationships within the system, including effective properties.

Andrew Reid is a computational materials scientist in the Material Measurement Lab at NIST. He is interested in models of structure-property relationships and nonlinear mechanical properties, especially plasticity.

Steve Langer is a physicist in the Applied and Computational Mathematics Division of the Information Technology Laboratory at NIST. He once worked on the physics of soft materials but now develops OOF full time.

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Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Andrew Reid, Stephen Langer (2022), "Microstructure Modeling with OOF2 and OOF3D," https://nanohub.org/resources/36380.

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1. computational science/engineering
2. Finite Element Method/Analysis (FEM)
3. material properties
4. materials science
5. OOF2
6. OOF3D