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The workflow for structural analysis during the Business Experiment was the
following: The CMT designed the funnel structure for the FSG. These designs were
simulated and optimized with ANSYS (http://www.ansys.com) at the CMT. Higher
detailed non linear calculations are not done yet. The reason is that the computing
power is not yet available neither at FSG or at CMT. In special cases FSG does a fire
calculation, but this calculation takes too much time for including it in a standard
construction procedure. The usage of computing power provided by T-Systems is
new and will offer a faster analysis of structures and their vibration, fatigue and
fire behaviour. This raises the quality of the structures, lowers the amount of time
needed to design them and makes ships safer.
10.3 Case Study - Collaborative Design with Grid-enabled Simulation
The solution that was provided by this Business Experiment was tested in a distrib-
uted environment, where many partners collaborated. The following diagram shows
how such a collaboration can be achieved using SESIS (see fig. 10.4).
Fig. 10.4:
SESIS at work
The players in this case study are the shipyard Flensburger Schiffbau Gesellschaft
(FSG) depicted on the right. The players on the left hand side are a resource provider,
(here T-Systems), and an engineering company (here CMT), that is providing
consultancy services to the shipyard.
The use case is as follows: The Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft developed
a new funnel in sandwich technology, whose non-linear fire analysis is done by
the consultant CMT using fire simulation software like FDS or ANSYS. In order
to present a satisfactory fire analysis it is required to simulate one hour of fire in a
funnel and demonstrate with this simulation that the temperature will not exceed a
given maximum temperature at any time.
Since such a fire simulation is very complex, the computation time on standard
hardware would take too long. Hence the calculation is performed on the resources
