Intelligent Support to Structural Design Analyses

Intelligent analytical aids for design capture the expertise of a specialist in the application of a design analysis technique – for instance in the development of an analytical model, in the forming of assumptions or in the interpretation of results. Such intelligent computer aids that have been developed for decision support within preprocessing and post-processing phase of the structural design analysis, using well known and widely used finite element method, are discussed in this paper. Key-Words: knowledge based systems, computer aided design, finite element analysis, decision support