A CAE SYSTEM FOR MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESIGN AND ITS INTERFACE IN INTERNET

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This paper describes an integrated and automated computer aided engineering (CAE) system for multidisciplinary design and its interface in the Internet. The CAE system is based on an object oriented approach, allows fully automated finite element (FE) analyses of various physical/mechanical phenomena, and facilitates an employment of existing software. The system operates in a distributed computer environment. An advanced interface for the system is also developed using VRML Ver.2.0 and JAVA. A user can easily access to the system from anywhere in the world through the Internet using a WWW browser, and manipulate analysis results lively under a multi-display environment. The CAE system and its interface were successfully applied to the shape design of a novel microaccelerometer based on a tunneling current concept.