STAMPAR: A parallel processing approach for the explicit dynamic analysis of sheet stamping problems

Abstract

Industrial sheet stamping problems generally require enormous amounts of computer resource for their solution within an acceptable time. Explicit dynamic algorithms are commonly used for these analyses since they reduce the memory requirements but they still require large CPU times and parallel processing offers the only realistic alternative. This paper describes the parallel program Stampar used for the solution of industrial sheet stamping problems. The methodologies used for the parallelisation are described as well as an example with timings that show the advantage of this approach.