1. Description of the application area The advances in computer graphics technology plus the increased complexity of nite element (FE) simulations of the crash behavior of a car body have resulted in the need for new visualization techniques to facilitate the analysis of such engineering computations. Our VR system VtCrash provides novel computer-human interface techniques for intuitive and int...

Numerical finite element simulations of the behavior of a car body in frontal, side or rear impact collision scenarios have become increasingly complex as well as reliable and precise. They are well established as a standard evaluation tool in the automotive development process. Both, the increased complexity plus the advances in computer graphics technology have resulted in the need for new vi...

Safety of motor vehicle seats is of great importance in providing crash protection to the occupant. An increasing number of wheelchair users use their wheelchairs as motor vehicle seats when traveling. A voluntary standard requires that compliant wheelchairs be dynamically sled impact tested. However, testing to evaluate the crashworthiness of add-on wheelchair seating systems (WCSS) independen...

Due to the significant growth in transportation industries, the importance of interactions between vehicle technologies and humans from the safety aspect plays an important role in the new developments of complex vehicle systems. Therefore, from academic and industrial viewpoints, increasing attention has been paid to complex vehicle correlative technologies with full consideration of issues li...

Replicating data in distributed systems is an important issue, which is often needed for reliability, availability and performance improvement. In unstructured Peer-to-Peer networks, in which random walks are utilized for query routing, replicating data items can improve the probability of successfully finding requested items. In such networks, nodes often donate resources, in particular a part...