Classification of Knowledge for Generating Engineering Models - A Case Study of Model Generation in Finite Element Analysis

Abstract

During design, a designer uses various computational tools, such as a geometric modeling system, analysis tools, and databases. To support these design processes, a system that can integrate such computational tools and support himlher to use the tools and to build, operate and modify models is required. For this purpose, we have been developing the Knowledge Intensive Engineering Framework (KIEF) system. This paper describes the structure of knowledge model used in a modeling process of engineering models. We analyzed engineering knowledge used for Finite Element Analysis (FEA), categorized it, and finally built an environment to support FEA on KIEF.