Blend recognition algorithm and applications
Proceedings of the sixth ACM symposium on Solid modeling and applications
Reconstruction of feature volumes and feature suppression
Proceedings of the seventh ACM symposium on Solid modeling and applications
Removal of blends from boundary representation models
Proceedings of the seventh ACM symposium on Solid modeling and applications
A small feature suppression/unsuppression system for preparing B-rep models for analysis
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Solid and physical modeling
Mesh Generation: Application to Finite Elements
Mesh Generation: Application to Finite Elements
Adaptation of CAD model topology for finite element analysis
Computer-Aided Design
Some aspects of parametric surface meshing
Finite Elements in Analysis and Design
Automatic triangulation over three-dimensional parametric surfaces based on advancing front method
Finite Elements in Analysis and Design
Feature suppression based CAD mesh model simplification
Computer-Aided Design
Defeaturing CAD models using a geometry-based size field and facet-based reduction operators
Engineering with Computers - Special Issue: The Mesh Trends Symposium
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
Being able to automatically mesh composite geometry is an important issue in the context of CAD-FEA integration. In some specific contexts of this integration, such as using virtual topology or meshing constraints topology (MCT), it is even a key requirement. In this paper, we present a new approach to automatic mesh generation over composite geometry. The proposed mesh generation approach is based on a generalization of the advancing front method (AFM) over curved surfaces. The adaptation of the AFM to composite faces (composed of multiple boundary representation (B-Rep) faces) involves the computation of complex paths along these B-Rep faces, on which progression of the advancing front is based. Each mesh segment or mesh triangle generated through this progression on composite geometry is likely to lie on multiple B-Rep faces and consequently, it is likely to be associated with a composite definition across multiple parametric spaces. Collision tests between new front segments and existing mesh elements also require specific and significant adaptations of the AFM, since a given front segment is also likely to lie on multiple B-Rep faces. This new mesh generation approach is presented in the context of MCT, which requires being able to handle composite geometry along with non-manifold boundary configurations, such as edges and vertices lying in the interior domain of B-Rep faces.