Impacting the design process using solid modelling and automated finite element mesh generation

DOI10.1016/0010-4485(88)90278-3MaRDI QIDQ1111351zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors B. W. Rudd

Publication date 1988

Published in CAD. Computer-Aided Design (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-4485(88)90278-3

zbMATH Keywords

Boolean operationscantilever platecantilevered stepped shaftcomputer-aided designFinite elementmesh generatormotorcycle suspensionrealistic examplessolid modellingsteering knuckle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Descriptive geometry (51N05) Algorithms for approximation of functions (65D15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N50)

Review text

Finite element analysis, historically used primarily as an after-the-fact verification tool, should be an essential part in earlier stages of computer-aided design. To give this ability, the turnaround time for performing a finite element analysis needs to be decreased. This may be done by the use of solid modelling software and of a free mesh generator. The paper describes the application of a solid modeller with high-level operations (Boolean operations as join, subtract, and intersect, and others, as extruding, revolving, or dragging two-dimensional profiles to create three-dimensional objects), combined with the application of an automatic mesh generator. A number of realistic examples (cantilever plate, motorcycle suspension, cantilevered stepped shaft, steering knuckle) were evaluated and demonstrated by instructive figures, partially colour plates. However, there is no hint to the mathematical background of the mesh generator, for this we refer to the papers of \textit{M. S. Shepard} and \textit{M. A. Yerry} [Int. J. Numer. Methods Eng. 20, 1965-1990 (1984; Zbl 0547.73069)] and \textit{M. S. Shepard}, \textit{M. A. Yerry}, and \textit{P. L. Baehmann} [Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Eng. 55, 161-180 (1986; Zbl 0587.73015)].

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