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Fig. 4.5.2.1: Simulation Data and Process Management (courtesy of MSC
Software)
Fig.4.5.2.1 shows a sample process map of a generic crash simulation
process with both simulation data objects (green circles) and simulation
process actions (blue boxes). SDM should manage the simulation data, and
also offer the possibility of managing the simulation processes. This is
particularly important for increasing confidence in simulation data, as it
makes simulation processes repeatable and, thus, results easier to
compare. It should be noted that, especially in early design phases,
appropriate CAD data may not be available yet. For this reason any SDM
system must be flexible enough that input data for building simulation
models can come from different sources, not necessarily from PDM
systems only, but of course desired in the future.
To enable a total procedure to become faster, an integrated software
environment is needed. For example, the physical layout needs to be done
rapidly either using CAE or (semi-)analytically or with symbolic CAE when
only some basic data is available (Fig.4.5.2.2).
Very often in a typical new vehicle, in order to encourage design work using
CAE during early development phases, parametric vehicle-concept models
are desirable because they allow conceptual, geometric modifications to be
evaluated rapidly at a time when no CAD data is yet available. Such tools
should allow concept modification cycles (i.e. variation of parametric vehicle
concepts) on data available either from predecessor models or from scratch
(Fig 4.5.2.2).
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