Technical Facets of a New Methodology to Describe Processes Contemplating Networking of Computer Aided Engineering Methods

Abstract

Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) methods describe behavior of products and simultaneous validate a product design. From scientific and practical viewpoints, these simulation methods have to be executed and synchronized in a process considering their generic interdependencies. For instance while performing car’s door digital validation, various simulations have to be performed e.g. stiffness, crash, forming. According to the dependencies, crash simulation needs results of forming simulation as inputs which authenticate a need of CAE process. So far, the CAE process has been accomplished partially and in a manual way, which make engineers unable to validate a complete product in faster and efficient way. A new methodology to develop a CAE network and deriving an explicit product, phase, and priority oriented CAE process from that is described with concept and implementation in this paper. Major objective of this research work is to improve the quality of simulation by developing computer aided network of CAE methods.