A Consulting System for the Finite Element Structural Analysis (2nd Report)

FEMHELP : A Total Consulting System for the FEM

Abstract

The Finite Element Method (FEM) is an excellent simulation tool in the Computer Aided Engineering (CAE). It is indispensable to a new product development because of its superiority in wide usability, low computation cost and high accuracy. However, it is difficult to utilize the FEM well enough without experts in the FEM. Therefore, a consulting system for the FEM is required to help beginner to master it by himself. Concretely the following fields in the FEM require a consulting system : (1) modeling, (2) mesh generation, (3) output inspection and a total consulting system for the FEM “FEMHELP” are developed. In this paper, the necessity and outline of the FEMHELP system are shown.