Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing

Virtual Engineering transforms product development, enabling a fully-integrated virtual process that requires zero physical prototypes.

Virtual Engineering is the design and development of integrated computational systems and simulation tools and their application to product design, engineering, manufacturing and testing. Such systems provide comprehensive virtual environments that replicate physical process and enable advanced visualisation, analysis and interpretation.

VPAC works with engineering and manufacturing clients in developing integrated Virtual Engineering processes, tools and infrastructure. VPAC’s Virtual Engineering capabilities include:

• CAD design and parametric geometry modelling,
• Simulation in areas such as: structural analysis, computational fluid dynamics, non-linear analysis (such as crashworthiness an drop testing), kinematic and dynamics, fatigue and durability, discrete event modelling and acoustics,
• Topological optimisation to derive minimal structures to satisfy loading conditions and deliver weight and cost savings, and
• Design Space Evaluation and Design Optimisation using techniques such as design of experiments, response surface modelling, robust analysis and Design for Six Sigma (DFSS).

At the core of VPAC’s Virtual Engineering capability is its expertise in enterprise level Multi-Disciplinary Optimisation (MDO). VPAC has comprehensive capability, software tools, services, and infrastructure for construction and execution of multidisciplinary optimisation.

VPAC’s MDO capability is integrated with the company’s High Performance Computing capabilities and resources. VPAC has a number of tools in this area, such as:

• jSub (a client-server job submission tool)
• Workflow Software Suite for composing, executing and monitoring MDO based workflows from single parameter studies to enterprise level, and;
• Multi-Disciplinary Optimisations using a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Contact

For further information on VPAC's Virtual Engineering capabilities, please contact Thomas Ting via thomas@vpac.org or phone +61 3 9647 5433.