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Categories
Pick a board, then continue on GitHub. That is where replies, notifications, and search live.
Questions
FEM setup, constitutive models, locking, solvers, and “why did this simulation fail?”
Open Q&A →Solid & fluid mechanics
Continuum theory, kinematics, balance laws, and modeling choices that are not a single bug hunt.
Open general →Codes & examples
Meshes, benchmarks, lecture notes, and implementations worth sharing.
Open show and tell →Hub requests
Suggest a topic, an illustration, or a gap in the learning hub.
Open ideas →Site updates
Changes to mechanicsreference.com and the notes in the hub.
Open announcements →What next
Vote on which examples and topics should be written up next.
Open polls →GitHub Pages can only serve static files, so the forum itself cannot live inside this domain. Discussions is GitHub’s forum for the project: github.com/mhsgoud/mechanicsreference/discussions.
How to post
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Q&A for help, General for theory, Show and tell for work you want to share.
State the continuum or numerical setting, what you tried, and what you expected. Equations in Markdown are fine.