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Citation |
Badin J, Chamoret D, Roth S, Imbert JR, Gomes S. Int. J. Mech. Appl. 2012; 2(5): 49-60. |
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(Copyright © 2012, Scientific and Academic Publishing) |
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Abstract |
This paper focuses on industrial design and crash simulation. Indeed, crash simulation has progressed considerably to become a key area in product design, especially in automotive industry. The main objective of this paper is to show the role of the numerical simulation on the design process and to explain its integration in this process. Actually, we can now talk about a strong connection between the simulation and the design process. It allows significant gains, however it highlights the problem of collaboration around knowledge in the design process. Indeed, each expert model is driven by specific data which are shared by several users and used at the same time in a concurrent engineering context. Thus in this paper, we propose at first an assess of differents kind of crash simulation integration on design process and their benefits/limits. Then we propose an approach referred to as KCM - Knowledge Configuration Management, based on management of fine granularity knowledge in configuration. This approach is likely to improve collaboration between project participants, improving capitalization, traceability, reuse and consistency of the knowledge used simultaneously on several activities in parallel within the design process. Finally, the purpose of our paper is to find new ways to further optimize the simulation/Design integration through an approach of knowledge management which is a new challenge today in industry. |