“Remote Interactive Computing for Design and Optimization” by Plaskocz
Conference:
- SIGGRAPH 1992
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Title:
- Remote Interactive Computing for Design and Optimization
Program Title:
- Showcase
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Project Affiliation:
- Argonne National Laboratory
Description:
Nonlinear 3D structural dynamic simulations play a central role in nuclear reactor safety as well as crashworthiness studies. This demonstration features a distributed interactive environment with supercomputer computation and workstation visualization.
The dynamic crash response of an s-rail, a front-end automobile structural component, impacting a rigid wall is performed on supercomputer. This environment allows an analyst to interactively redesign the s-rail by introducing lighter materials at noncritical sections without changing the collapse load. The analyst’s goal is the optimal design from the weight-cost-manufacturability perspective. Two modes of interaction ore supported: interaction with the visual display (changing object and observer positions, lighting, etc.) and interaction with the simulation (altering material properties).
