Examinando por Autor "Ruíz, O.E."

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    Computational geometry in the preprocessing of point clouds for surface modeling
    (1998) Ruíz, O.E.; Posada, J.L.; Universidad EAFIT. Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica; Laboratorio CAD/CAM/CAE
    In Computer Aided Geometric Design ( CAGD ) the automated fitting of surfaces to massive series of data points presents several difficulties: (i) even the formal definition of the problem is ambiguous because the mathematical characteristics (continuity, for example) of the surface fit are dependent on non-geometric considerations, (ii) the data has an stochastic sampling component that cannot be taken as literal, and, (iii) digitization characteristics, such as sampling interval and directions are not constant, etc -- In response, this investigation presents a set of computational tools to reduce, organize and re-sample the data set to fit the surface -- The routines have been implemented to be portable across modeling or CAD servers -- A case study is presented from the footwear industry, successfully allowing the preparation of a foreign, neutral laser digitization of a last for fitting a B-spline surface to it -- Such a result was in the past attainable only by using proprietary software, produced by the same maker of the digitizing hardware
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    Engineering design using evolutionary structural optimisation based on iso-stress-driven smooth geometry removal
    (2001) García, M.J.; Ruíz, O.E.; Steven, G.P.; Universidad EAFIT. Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica; Laboratorio CAD/CAM/CAE
    The main goal of Evolutionary Structural Optimisation (ESO) research has been to provide an easily applicable optimisation method for the engineering industry which assists the design process for product improvement -- Originally O was based on the concept of fully stressed structures and it is obtained by slowly removing, from a Finite Element mesh these elements that present the lowest stress value -- Following this heuristically-driven removal criteria, the initial topology evolves towards the optimum one -- Since its introduction in 1992, ESO has been developed and extended to several types of structural problems -- Initial weaknesses of ESO were (i) typically long solution times and (ii) topologies with jagged surfaces as a result of removing whole elements in the optimisation process -- These characteristics hindered its application to computer aided design and analysis -- In this investigation, these weaknesses have been addressed for 2D situations by (i) basing the stress computation on the Fixed Grid (FG) finite element method and (ii) removing material with the lowest values along iso-stress contours instead of removing whole elements -- A boundary representation (B-rep) of the structure is maintained at each iteration of the optimisation process -- Modification to the workpiece is made by identifying the stress contour lines and incorporating them into the evolving geometry -- The topological consistency of the B-rep is maintained via normalized 2D boolean operations