Arch documentation

This is the official documentation of Arch for JavaScript and TypeScript. Arch is a displacement discontinuity method (a boundary element method) developped by YouWol. It is the successor of Poly3D and iBem3D.

Arch can be run either from the frontend (web browser) or backend (using node).

Documentation

See the online generated documentation.

Main references

(The generated documentation also includes more references to papers that use or extend this technology)


This boundary element code is based on

A. L. Thomas Stanford master's thesis,

with extensions from

F. Maerten Stanford and Montpellier PhD's thesis,

a main publication from

F. Maerten, L. Maerten and D. D. Pollard

and with corrections for singular points from

Nikkhoo et al.

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