Rocketstruct

Rocketstruct is a Python library for structural analysis of rocket-engine components. It covers thick-walled pressure vessels, circular flat plates, and bolted joints — stresses, limit loads, and burst pressures — with SI units throughout.

Getting Started

Installation

Install Rocketstruct using pip:

pip install rocketstruct

Documentation

The full documentation is available at felipebogaertsm.github.io/rocketstruct.

Development Setup

If you're contributing to Rocketstruct, you'll need uv for dependency management.

Installing uv

macOS / Linux:

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

Windows (PowerShell):

powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"

For more details, visit the official uv installation guide.

Clone and Install

Clone the repository and install dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/felipebogaertsm/rocketstruct.git
cd rocketstruct
make install

Publishing a New Release

1. Create a release on GitHub with a tag matching vX.Y.Z (e.g. v1.2.0). The version is derived automatically from the git tag.

2. The publish workflow builds the package and publishes it to PyPI via trusted publishing (OIDC).