A Graphical User Interface for the Fastcomp Software

• Author(s): Patrícia Carla Teixeira Gonçalves ; João Manuel Ribeiro da Silva Tavares ; Pedro Manuel Ponces Rodrigues de Castro Camanho
• Date: 2006
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10216/292
• Origin: Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
• Subject(s): Ciências tecnológicas; Tecnologia; Tecnologia de interface
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: Portuguese

Description

FastComp is a computational tool used in mechanical engineering for the determination of the forces that a composite bolted joint subjected to multiaxial loads supports until fracture occurs. The main intention of the present work was the development of a graphical user interface (GUI) for the referred software that allows its parameterization and the visualization of its results. Using VTK, a computational library for graphical objects, visualization and image processing; C#, an object-oriented programming language; and the design principles of a good human/computer interaction, a graphical interface was developed as an efficient and effective means of interaction with the FastComp software.