Partner und Internationale Organisationen
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Rolla SP (CH), CIMSI (CH), ITIA (I), GARO (I), KUL (B), TTS (I), CIOTEC (F), SYSTUS (F), INTA (E)
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Abstract
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INCOMPRO deals with composites as the essential building materials of a new group of products, defined as intelligent. They are called so because of their inherent physical and morphological properties, thanks to which they adapt themselves to working conditions. Among the products that have inspired this project, and which seem well suited to it, are the propeller, the liquid ring compressor, booms for sailboats, and structural panels for trains and airplanes.
The virtual engineering environment system (VEE) developed within the project integrates a data base of material properties, a knowledge base of rules generated from parameters and constraints of actual manufacturing processes, feature based product data models, improved modeling algorithms based on few codes, and a new design method, called design-of-deformation (DoD), providing the optimal product shape under varying loading conditions.
The task of the Centre of Structure Technologies of the ETH was the development of theory and algorithms for the design-of-deformation method, providing the necessary foundation for the industrial partner SYSTUS (F) to develop the Design-of-Deformation software module.
The project goals have been reached and a VEE system, where the DoD method is implemented, has been created and tested. The research performed at ETH has led to various publications [1-3] and the DoD method will be included in the material of a new lecture class on structural optimization.
1. Kress, G. and P. Ermanni, Design of Deformation: Concept, Algorithms, and Sample Calculations, Proc. IMS Forum 2001 in Lugano, Oct. 6-8, 2001
2. Kress, G., Design of Deformation Optimization Problem and Variables Parameterization, submitted for publication in Structural Optimization, (Ms 934), 2001
3. Kress, G., Design of Deformation as an Optimization Problem, submitted for publication in Structural Optimization, (Ms 894), 2001
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