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**METAFOR** is an object-oriented Finite Element code for the simulation of solids submitted to large deformations.

**METAFOR** is developed by the [[team:start|Computational Mechanics]] laboratory of the department of [[http://www.am.uliege.be/|Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering]] at the [[https://www.uliege.be/|University of Liège]]. 

Some of the features included in **METAFOR** are:
  * 2D/3D elements for large strains analysis (Selective Reduced Integration, Enhanced Assumed Strain, ...).
  * Implicit/explicit time integration (Chung Hulbert, Hilber-Hughes-Taylor, ...).
  * Thermomechanical coupling (staggered or fully coupled schemes).
  * Frictional contact between deformable bodies or CAD surfaces.   
  * Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian formalism.
  * Meshing and remeshing procedures.
  * Large set of constitutive laws (thermo-elasto-visco-plastic, damage, composites, ...).
  * Crack propagation (erosion method).