TY  - JOUR
AB  - A tailored graphical user interface (GUI) for finite element
analysis, fully integrated into Microsoft Windows 3.1, has been developed.
The current application is the simulation of flat sheet extrusion of
thermoplastics, but many of the features would be common to a wide range of
finite element analyses. Microsoft’s C/C++ Professional
Development System 7.0, including the Software Development Kit 3.1
(SDK), has been used as the programming tool for the GUI. The
interface is based on the Common User Access Advanced Interface Design Guide,
which is part of the IBM Systems Application Architecture Library, and The
Windows Interface: An Application Design Guide, which is part of the
SDK. A memory handling technique is proposed to break the imposed 64 KB data
segmentation. Connected finite element calculation routines are written in
Fortran and compiled by the Salford FTN77/x86 32‐bit compiler. The
protected mode interface of the Fortran compiler allows direct access by the
GUI, and allows the computation to run as a 32‐bit background
application, without memory limitations, in the multitasking environment.
Finite element routines are supported by pre‐ and
post‐processors comprising mesh generation, post‐processing for
derived results, and graphical displays. A convenient contouring algorithm
is proposed to generate contoured plots of nodal quantities in the form of
iso‐lines or iso‐fields.
VL  - 12
IS  - 1
SN  - 0264-4401
DO  - 10.1108/02644409510799460
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/02644409510799460
AU  - Sander R.
AU  - Pittman J.F.T.
PY  - 1995
Y1  - 1995/01/01
TI  - Finite element analysis on PCs with an ms—windows graphical user
interface
T2  - Engineering Computations
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 35
EP  - 60
Y2  - 2024/09/22
ER  -