Computer Software:

Here are links to several useful programs for teaching and research:

Nestor Cardozo's Archive:

Archive of programs for the Macintosh OSX 10.3.9 and above written by Nestor Cardozo (click here).  Programs are free for academics and include a structural geology calculator (OSXGeoCalc), a backstripping program (OSXBackstrip), a flexural modeling program (OSXFlex2D), a forward, 3D Trishear modeling program (Trishear3D), and a 2D and 3D inverse strain modeling program (SSPX).

Rick Allmendinger's Archive:

Archive of programs for the Macintosh OS written by Richard Allmendinger of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.  Includes a stereonet plotting program, a fault kinematics program, a microstructural analysis program, and several structural geology teaching programs. A Windows version of the Stereonet program is now available.

Rod Holcombe's Archive:

This site contains Windows programs written by Rod Holcombe at the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Queensland in Australia.  Software includes GEOrient (stereonets and rose diagrams), GeoCalculator (structural geometry calculator), GeoFryPlots (Fry strain analysis), and others.

David Pollard's Archive:

Archive of programs written by researchers in David Pollard's group at Stanford University for the structural and mechanical analysis of faulting, fracturing, and earthquake deformation. Includes Windows, UNIX, and LINUX versions of the boundary element code Poly3D, the code Poly3Dinv for inverse problems, and a Windows graphical user interface Poly3DGUI.
 

Additional listings of free and commercial software can be found at:

Structural Geology on the Web -- Computer Software (maintained by Tony Caldanaro, Smith College)

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