TOWARDS IDENTIFICATION AND FORMALISATION OF KNOWLEDGE IN COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS

摘要

Scaling up computational mechanical behaviour from small scale to the industrial level within a company gives rises to new problems: lack of back tracing, lost knowledge, repeated mistakes. The work shown in this article aims at identifying, structuring and formalizing the information and knowledge on simulation, to make them capitalisable and reusable by other participants and on other projects. The Renault Company is an active partner in this research through one of its computational mechanics departments and helped us to test and confront our ideas with real industrial simulation processes. The outcome is presented in two main steps. In the first one, we show how the need for structure in simulation processes leads to specification of new links between the different kinds of capitalised information. In the second one, we precisely describe the concept of Instructional Case, whose target is to manage knowledge of a generic nature with a high potential for reuse.