FEA post-processing software for tire analysis (Michelin)

How Open Inventor Toolkit is used

Open Inventor technology is fully integrated in Michelin simulation software. It offers sophisticated visualization capabilities for in-depth post-processing and exploration of nonlinear simulation results.

Data are recovered from the FEA solver result database and displayed by selecting a region of interest in the tire, either in 3D or 2D space. Open Inventor allows great flexibility in the visual representation. For example: clipping along any 3D plane, flexible slicing, wireframe display, iso-lines, iso-surfaces, transparency and stereoscopic views. In order to handle the increasing size of data volumes (e.g. full 3D computations with all surrounding objects), we need more and more high-performance tools such as MeshViz XLM, which completely lives up to our in-house customers’ expectations. In particular, MeshViz XLM can directly access application data structures, avoiding time and memory wasting copying of data, and directly supports parametric nonlinear mesh cells.