Towards interactive finite element analysis of shell structures in virtual reality

@article{Liverani1999TowardsIF,
  title={Towards interactive finite element analysis of shell structures in virtual reality},
  author={Alfredo Liverani and Falko Kuester and Bernd Hamann},
  journal={1999 IEEE International Conference on Information Visualization (Cat. No. PR00210)},
  year={1999},
  pages={340-346}
}
  • A. Liverani, F. Kuester, B. Hamann
  • Published 14 July 1999
  • Computer Science
  • 1999 IEEE International Conference on Information Visualization (Cat. No. PR00210)
A first step towards a semi-immersive virtual reality (VR) interface for finite element analysis (FEA) is presented in this paper. During recent years, user interfaces of FEA solvers have matured from character-based command-line driven implementations into easy-to-use graphical user interfaces (GUIs). This new generation of GUIs provides access to intuitive and productive tools for the management and analysis of structural problems. Many pre- and post-processors have been implemented targeting… 
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