Title :
Crunching numbers, shaping steel
Author :
Pehle, Hans Foachim
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Technol. Comput., Mannesmann Demag Huttentechnik Meer, Monchengladbach, Germany
Abstract :
Discusses how the quickly evolving computer technology of the 1980s brought new ideas for innovation to the steel tubing industry. The complex mathematics of forming processes can be broken down into a series of closely linked elementary problems, which are then relatively easy to solve by numerical computation. With the advent of the finite-element method, solving complicated problems became a question of computer capacity and computational time as that capacity increased, computational numerical analysis became increasingly cost-effective
Keywords :
computational complexity; finite element analysis; forming processes; mathematics computing; production engineering computing; steel industry; computational numerical analysis; computational time; computer capacity; cost-effective; finite-element method; forming processes; mathematics; numerical computation; steel tubing industry; Computational modeling; Costs; Finite element methods; Milling machines; Petroleum industry; Production; Proposals; Shipbuilding industry; Steel; USA Councils;
Journal_Title :
Computational Science & Engineering, IEEE
