The use of a virtual environment for FE analysis of vehicle crash worthiness

Abstract

The advances in computer graphics technology plus the increased complexity of finite element (FE) simulations of the crash behavior of a car body have resulted in the need for new visualization techniques to facilitate the analysis of such engineering computations. The VR system VtCrash provides novel computer-human interface techniques for intuitive and interactive analysis of large amounts of crash simulation data. VtCrash takes geometry and physical properties data as input and enables the user to enter a virtual crash and to interact with any part of the vehicle.