FEATURE-BASED APPROACH FOR THE AUTOMATED SETUP OF ACCURATE, DESIGN-ACCOMPANYING FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSES
DS 84: Proceedings of the DESIGN 2016 14th International Design Conference
Year: 2016
Editor: Marjanovic Dorian, Storga Mario, Pavkovic Neven, Bojcetic Nenad, Skec Stanko
Author: Kestel, P.; Schneyer, T.; Wartzack, S.
Series: DESIGN
Section: DESIGN SUPPORT TOOLS
Page(s): 697-706
Abstract
Finite element analyses (FEA) gain huge attention in engineering design practice. However, an efficient use of FEA requires early application in the product development process. Furthermore, extensive specialist knowledge is a crucial prerequisite to perform reliable simulations. Due to time constraints, design accompanying FEA are performed too rarely by experienced simulation engineers or, if they are applied by non-expert simulation users, are not sufficiently accurate. Hence, a feature-based approach is presented, to support and automate the setup of design accompanying simulations.
Keywords: knowledge-based simulation, assistance system, feature, data mining