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Comparative Visualization of Instabilities in Crash-Worthiness Simulations

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Data Visualization 2001

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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.

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  1. Ifl, Visualization and Interactive Systems Group, University of Stuttgart, Germany

    Ove Sommer & Thomas Ertl

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  1. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

    David S. Ebert

  2. Data Mining & Visualization, CSCS, Manno, Switzerland

    Jean M. Favre

  3. Institut für wissenschaftliches Rechnen, ETH-Zentrum, IFW, Zürich, Switzerland

    Ronald Peikert

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Sommer, O., Ertl, T. (2001). Comparative Visualization of Instabilities in Crash-Worthiness Simulations. In: Ebert, D.S., Favre, J.M., Peikert, R. (eds) Data Visualization 2001. Eurographics. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6215-6_34

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