A GUI for a Software that Analyses a Composite Bolted Joint

• Author(s): Patrícia C. T. Gonçalves ; João Manuel R. S. Tavares
• Date: 2008
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10216/5410
• Origin: Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
• Subject(s): Ciências tecnológicas; Engenharia
• Document Type: Article
• Language: Portuguese

Description

FastComp is a computational tool for the determination of the forces that a composite bolted joint subjected to multiaxial loads supports until failure occurs. The main intention of the present work was the development of a graphical user interface (GUI) for the referred tool that allows its parameterization and the visualization of its output results. Using VTK – The Visualization Toolkit, a computational library for graphical structures, visualization and image processing; C#, an object-oriented programming language; and the design principles of an adequate human-computer interaction, a graphical interface was developed as an efficient and effective means of interaction with FastComp. This interface was then evaluated by some users.