Comparative Visualization of Instabilities in Crash-Worthiness Simulations

Sommer, Ove; Ertl, Thomas

Comparative Visualization of Instabilities in Crash-Worthiness Simulations

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Date

2001

Authors

Sommer, Ove
Ertl, Thomas

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

Since crash-worthiness simulations get more and more important as part of the car development process in order to reduce the cost of development, enhance the product quality, and minimize the time-to-market, the reliability of the simulation results plays a decisive role concerning their significance. Recently the simulation departments of several automotive companies started investigating the quantity and reason for deviations during a number of simulation runs on the same input model. In this case study we discuss different measurements for instability and present a texture-based visualization method which allows the engineers to efficiently explore the simulation results by interactively hiding finite element structures with nearly constant crash performance. Furthermore, we describe those parts of our prototype which use a CORBA layer for providing the same view on a set of simulation results and allowing the visual comparison by using the marker functionality.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/VisSym/VisSym01/319-328
,
booktitle = {Eurographics / IEEE VGTC Symposium on Visualization
},
editor = {David S. Ebert and Jean M. Favre and Ronald Peikert
},
title = {{Comparative Visualization of Instabilities in Crash-Worthiness Simulations
}},
author = {Sommer, Ove and 
Ertl, Thomas
},
year = {2001
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-5296
},
ISBN = {3-211-83674-8
},
DOI = {/10.2312/VisSym/VisSym01/319-328
}
}