The autobench project
by the "Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung"
(BMBF) is a combination of several automobile manufacturers (among others BMW), software companies for simulationsoftware and technologieproviders as the
GMD and the
University of Stuttgart.
The aim of this three-year project is to accelerate the design and development of automobiles by using numerical simulation (crash, forming, stability, vibration behaviour, ...) and simultaneously reduce the number of required prototypes. Within the scope of the activity package 3 Crashsimulation the program crashViewer is developed at the institute for computer science, University of Stuttgart, since june 1999 (before
University of Erlangen)
under the direction of
Prof. Dr. Th. Ertl.
This visualisationtool is created by close cooperation with the department EK-21 (crashsimulation) of the research and enginering center of the
BMW Group and is already in practical use here at the pre- as well as the postprocessing.
The crashviewer is written completely in C++ and is based
on the graphic APIs Cosmo3D and OpenGL/Optimizer. Using the
newest technologies and research results it is a most powerfull
threedimensional tool mastering among others
the following tasks:
