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Large Scale Tracked Vehicle Concurrent Engineering Environment

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Advances in Structural Optimization

Part of the book series: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications ((SMIA,volume 25))

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In this paper, a fully integrated Tracked Vehicle Concurrent Engineering environment that exploits CAD and CAE technologies in support of simulation-based design of large scale tracked vehicles is presented. The Tracked Vehicle Concurrent Engineering environment comprises a series of engineering workspaces that include CAD/CAE Services, Tracked Vehicle Workspace, Dynamic Stress and Life Prediction Workspace, and Design Sensitivity Analysis and Optimization Workspace. These engineering workspaces are the principal functional components of the integrated simulation-based design environment that utilizes mechanical system data modeling techniques and ROSE object-oriented database to facilitate and manage data sharing. Wrappers have been developed to integrate these engineering workspaces by providing bi-directional data access and translation capabilities between the engineering workspaces and the database. In addition to these engineering workspaces, the Iowa Driving Simulator is integrated into the environment to provide a customer-driven simulation and design environment.

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    Kyung K. Choi, J. Kirk Wu, Kuang-Hua Chang, Jun Tang, Jia-Yi Wang & Edward J. Haug

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Choi, K.K., Wu, J.K., Chang, KH., Tang, J., Wang, JY., Haug, E.J. (1995). Large Scale Tracked Vehicle Concurrent Engineering Environment. In: Herskovits, J. (eds) Advances in Structural Optimization. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 25. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0453-1_13

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