171 results about "Tetrahedral meshes" patented technology

A novel and useful mechanism for the skinning of 3D meshes with reference to a skeleton utilizing statistical weight optimization techniques. The mechanism of the present invention comprises (1) an efficient high quality linear blend skinning (LBS) technique based on a set of skeleton deformations sampled from the manipulation space; (2) a joint placement algorithm to optimize the input skeleton; and (3) a set of tools for a user to interactively control the skinning process. Statistical skinning weight maps are computed using an as-rigid-as-possible (ARAP) optimization. The method operates with a coarsely placed initial skeleton and optimizes joint placements to improve the skeleton's alignment. Bones may also be parameterized incorporating twists, bends, stretches and spines. Several easy to use tools add additional constraints to resolve ambiguous situations when needed and interactive feedback is provided to aid users. Quality weight maps are generated for challenging deformations and various data types (e.g., triangle, tetrahedral meshes), including noisy, complex and topologically challenging examples (e.g., missing triangles, open boundaries, self-intersections, or wire edges).

A novel and useful mechanism for the skinning of 3D meshes with reference to a skeleton utilizing statistical weight optimization techniques. The mechanism of the present invention comprises (1) an efficient high quality linear blend skinning (LB S) technique based on a set of skeleton deformations sampled from the manipulation space; (2) a joint placement algorithm to optimize the input skeleton; and (3) a set of tools for a user to interactively control the skinning process. Statistical skinning weight maps are computed using an as-rigid-as-possible (ARAP) optimization. The method operates with a coarsely placed initial skeleton and optimizes joint placements to improve the skeleton's alignment. Bones may also be parameterized incorporating twists, bends, stretches and spines. Several easy to use tools add additional constraints to resolve ambiguous situations when needed and interactive feedback is provided to aid users. Quality weight maps are generated for challenging deformations and various data types (e.g., triangle, tetrahedral meshes), including noisy, complex and topologically challenging examples (e.g., missing triangles, open boundaries, self-intersections, or wire edges).

The invention belongs to the technical field of mechanical analysis and numerical solution of a three-dimensional structure and relates to a contact analysis method in three-dimensional mechanical finite element model analysis. The method comprises the steps of firstly modeling a target electron device structure; introducing a displacement boundary condition or a stress boundary condition to establish a corresponding geometric structure model; generating a contact relation between parts according to a mutual relation between the parts; then subdividing the established geometric structure model by use of a tetrahedral mesh; generating a joint surface mesh according to a surface mesh in a simulated area contact surface; and finally establishing a finite element general intrinsic equation of a target electron device in consideration of a contact problem by use of a finite element method, solving the equation to obtain a characteristic value and a characteristic vector, and post-processing to obtain a vibration modal frequency and a vibration model. Therefore, the contact analysis in modal analysis is realized and a high-precision numerical calculation result is obtained.

Systems and methods for compressing and / or decompressing data corresponding to 3D finite element meshes are provided. Preferably, a method for encoding data corresponding to connectivity information of a 3D finite element mesh, with the mesh being formed of tetrahedra, includes the steps of: providing data corresponding to connectivity information of the 3D finite element mesh, and; reconfiguring the data based upon identification of faces of each of the tetrahedra where other tetrahedra are to be attached.

The invention provides a soft tissue deformation and cutting simulation method based on position dynamics. The method comprises the following four steps: grid preprocessing: according to an original triangular grid and a tetrahedron grid, and calculating a texture coordinate of each peak, calculating a set of edges in the grid, setting dynamics simulation parameters, and generating an improved tetrahedron grid; the deformation calculation of a soft tissue object: according to the current positions and the stressing situation of the peaks of the grids, calculating the positions of the peaks of the grids at a next moment according to the position dynamics; updating during grid topology change: according to an intersection situation of a cutting plane and grid intersection points, dividing an original tetrahedron, and updating the parameters of a geometric model and a position dynamics model; and visual rendering and touch rendering: displaying the soft tissue object and generating force feedback. The invention can truly simulate a process of cutting soft tissues in a virtual surgery, and exhibits high instantaneity.

The present disclosure discloses a method and a device for elastic object deformation modeling. The method comprises: acquiring a static point cloud of the elastic object and dynamic point cloud sequences; establishing a simulation tetrahedral mesh model; driving the simulation tetrahedral mesh model to track the dynamic point cloud sequences, to obtain track deformation sequences; iteratively estimating material property coefficients and corresponding reference shapes of the elastic object; performing the following operations in each iteration: obtaining a reference shape corresponding to a current material property coefficient; driving the simulation tetrahedral mesh model to simulate the deformation from the same initial deformation according to the coefficient and the reference shape to obtain a simulation deformation sequences; calculating a positional deviation between the simulation deformation sequences and the track deformation sequences; and updating the material property coefficients in a direction in which the positional deviation is decreased; establishing an elastic object deformation model according to a material property coefficient under a minimum positional deviation and corresponding reference shape. The technical solution can establish a vivid elastic object deformation model.

An iterative method for determining a two—or—three-dimensional image on the basis of signals arising from X-ray tomography, comprises: segmenting the image by separating distinct materials respectively by level lines for 2D or level surfaces for 3D; and adapting the mesh, triangular for 2D or tetrahedral 3D, in which points are distributed in a homogeneous manner respectively over a level line for 2D or over a level surface for 3D, serving to formulate the progressively coarse triangular mesh for 2D or tetrahedral mesh for 3D, so that the number of distributed points depends respectively, for a line, on the ratio of the length of the line to the length of the minimum line from among the lines of the segmented image, or, for a surface, on the ratio of the area of the surface to the area of the minimum surface from among the surfaces of the segmented image.

Disclosed in the invention is a modeling method of a deformation movement of an elastic object. The method comprises: a static point cloud and a dynamic point cloud sequence of an elastic object are collected; a simulated tetrahedral mesh model is established; the simulated tetrahedral mesh model is driven to track the dynamic point cloud sequence to obtain a tracking deformation movement sequence; iterative estimation of a material attribute coefficient and a corresponding reference shape of the elastic object is carried out and following operations are implemented at each iterative period: the reference shape corresponding to the current material attribute coefficient is obtained; according to the coefficient and the reference shape, the simulated tetrahedral mesh model is driven to make deformation movement under same initial deformation to obtain a simulated deformation movement sequence; positional deviation between the simulated deformation movement sequence and the tracking deformation movement sequence is calculated; and the material attribute coefficient is updated along the position deviation reduction direction; and according to the material attribute coefficient and reference shape in a minimum position deviation state, a deformation movement model of the elastic object is established. On the basis of the modeling method, an authentic deformation movement model of an elastic object can be established.

The invention discloses a modeling method for MJ bolt and nut finite element meshes. The method comprises the following specific steps: I, summarizing geometrical features of a bolt and a nut; II, performing mathematical description on a thread zero-position section of the bolt; III, performing mathematical description on a thread zero-position section of the nut; IV, generating unthreaded region finite element meshes of the bolt and the nut; and V, generating thread node offsets of the bolt and the nut, and performing node movement on meshes on threads in order to obtain a threaded bolt. Through adoption of the modeling method, the MJ bolt and nut finite element meshes with threaded structure features can be generated rapidly and effectively. The meshes are hexahedron co-node meshes, so that errors caused by adoption of a TIE command or a tetrahedron mesh can be effectively avoided, and the calculation accuracy is increased greatly.

The invention relates to a finite element simulation method capable of removing a microwave tube high-frequency circuit in a pseudo-DC mode, comprising the flowing steps: (A) using a zero electric displacement vector as an electric field constraint equation and acquiring an integrated form of the electric field constraint equation according to an boundary value problem of an electromagnetic field in a microwave tube high-frequency circuit and acquiring a functional equation of the boundary value problem of the electromagnetic field through a standard variation principle of a finite element method; and (B) necessarily ensuring the match between grids on a main surface and grids on a secondary surface on a peripheral boundary when solving a solution domain and considering a pseudo-periodic boundary condition by adopting a dissection solution domain of tetrahedral grids. The invention has the advantages that the finite element simulation method can greatly improve the accuracy, the efficiency and the robustness of microwave tube high-frequency system simulation.

The invention discloses a coal bed high-pressure water injection fracturing-flow seeping value simulation method based on a shortest pressure relieving path algorithm. A coal body geometric model is built according to the water injection coal bed height, the strike length and the inclination length; a water injection hole model is added on the basis according to the water injection hole diameter, the length, the inclination angle and the hole sealing length parameter; a fracturing model is added according to the original fracture width, distribution and strike; finally, a combined body is formed through Boolean operation; the tetrahedron mesh generation is performed on the coal body geometric model; the mesh set which is easiest to damage is found, and is regarded as the generated fracture to be marked into the calculation fracture in the original geometric model; the algorithm step of finding the calculation fracture is repeated until all mesh intensity parameters are not lower than the received stress; the path formed by combining the obtained meshes is the shortest pressure relieving path, i.e., the fracture generating and development path is obtained. The water pressure fracturing is accurately simulated, and relevant data of the moving rule of moisture in the coal body is provided for decision makers.

The invention embodiment discloses a three-dimensional geological structure modeling method and system based on a composite grid. The three-dimensional geological structure modeling method includes selecting a grid system area of structure modeling, selecting an origin of the grid system and the grid step size and number on the coordinate direction, and generating an initial hexahedral grid system; dividing each initial hexahedral grid unit into multiple tetrahedral grid units, and generating a tetrahedral grid system; numbering the multiple tetrahedral grid units, recording the number of the multiple tetrahedral grid units contained in each initial hexahedral grid unit, and generating topology relationship of the tetrahedral grid system; adding an actual boundary of a set geological body model, redividing the tetrahedral grid system, and generating a composite grid system; and adding well location data and cross section data of the three-dimensional geological body model into the composite grid system, and performing layer tracking and three-dimensional geological grid construction.

The invention discloses a three-dimensional mesh model tetrahedralization method. The method comprises the following steps that (1), the initial position of a model is preprocessed; (2) a body centered cubic structure is established; (3) node symbols and points of tangency of boundries of a tetrahedron with the node symbols at the two ends opposite are calculated; (4) the points of tangency are moved; (5) the boundaries are tetrahedralized again. According to the three-dimensional mesh model tetrahedralization method, based on a body-centered cubic mesh tetrahedralization algorithm, preprocessing of principal component analysis of the three-dimensional model is added, a movement mode of the points of tangency of the boundaries of the model is changed, the points of tangency are moved to feature points of the model, and the positions of nodes of a final tetrahedral mesh are optimized through a density energy error function. After principal component analysis is adopted in the three-dimensional model, the quality of an initial tetrahedron element is improved; movement of the points of tangency to the feature points of the model is improved, so that local features of the tetrahedralized model are guaranteed; the quality of the final tetrahedral mesh is optimized through the density energy error function.

The invention discloses a finite element simulation analysis method of a power wire clip. The finite element simulation analysis method comprises the following steps of S1, establishing a power wire clip model by three-dimensional software; S2, guiding the power wire clip model obtained in S1 into finite element simulation analysis software; S3, establishing a coordinate system, dividing meshes of the power wire clip model, and forming tetrahedral meshes; S4, applying the boundary conditions of the power wire clip model to simulate and calculate; S5, calculating to obtain results; S6, processing the simulation and calculation results into a simulation cloud atlas or an applicable data format, observing the whole and local states of stress distribution via the simulation cloud atlas, and determining the stress number of each part of the power wire clip on the simulation cloud atlas. The finite element simulation analysis method has the advantages that the wire clip can be quickly modeled, the stress of the wire clip is performed with simulation analysis, the stress centralizing part is obtained, and the key optimizing and defect monitoring on the stress centralizing part can be performed.

The invention relates to an intrinsic-analysis method for assigned frequency of a periodic structure, which includes steps: A, setting a functional equation which can consider boundary value of an electromagnetic field in conductors and medium loss periodic structure and can obtain the boundary value of the electromagnetic field by means of standard variation principle of the finite element method; B, solving solution domain by gridding subdivision of a tetrahedron and guaranteeing gridding matching of a primary side and a secondary side of the periodic boundary; C, selecting primary function, expanding electric-field intensity vector in all grids by the primary function and obtaining a matrix equation of expansion coefficient by Ritz method; D, writing the matrix equation of the expansion coefficient into a linear generalized intrinsic equation about propagation constant; E, solving the linear generalized intrinsic equation by setting a frequency, obtaining attenuation constant and phase constant corresponding to the set frequency according to the propagation constant, and obtaining interaction impedance through after treatment; and F, repeating the step of E to obtain attenuation constants, phase constants and interaction impedance corresponding to different frequency.

The invention relates to a discrete algorithm for a tetrahedral mesh considering feature constraint. The algorithm comprises the steps of: before dividing the mesh, performing feature constraint treatment firstly, considering the constrain face in the object as inner hole constraint with zero thickness, discretizing the constrain face by treatment method similar to hole constraint intotwo groups of triangular front edges overlapped in location but opposite in normal, and discretizing the constrain line to a plurality of sections according to the size control function, then generating the tetrahedronal unit by gradual propelling in the object based on the triangular front edges till the front edge arrays of the current and next layers are empty completely; dynamically maintaining the front edge arrays of the current and next layers when the front edges propel, and controlling the size of the tetrahedronal unit by using an area-independent method to generate the uniform mesh unit; adjusting the mesh topologies on both sides of the constrain face after discretizing the mesh, and finally carrying out topological optimization of mesh and Laplace geometry optimization.

The invention relates to a dynamic solar tracking system for making optimal use of solar energy by means of panels of photovoltaic or thermal plates, in which a modular tracker adopting the configuration of a main beam which can be aligned with others of an identical nature is developed, this assembly of main beams being able to pivot with respect to its longitudinal axis, each of these beams being formed by a variable number of modules formed by profiles which as a whole provide each beam with a configuration by way of a tetrahedron mesh, and in each of which there is assembled a secondary beam structure for supporting the panels of plates, this secondary structure being supported by two side supports with respect to which it can rotate with respect to an axis transverse to the longitudinal direction of the main beams. The assembly incorporates control means for the automatic orientation of the panels, and a weather station for providing information to the control means.

The invention relates to a method for acquiring a tetrahedral mesh from a three-dimensional image of an object in the field of image processing technology. The method is directly carried out in an operating computer, and the three-dimensional image of the object is read and is processed sequentially through an image preprocessing module, a sampling module and a mesh rebuilding module to acquire the tetrahedral mesh, wherein the image preprocessing module repeatedly carries out binary erosion on an input binary image to acquire a distance conversion result of the image; and a dense function is calculated based on the distance conversion result and is output to the sampling module. According to the dense function, the sampling module carries out sampling on the image to acquire a needed space sampling point; the space sampling point is output to the mesh rebuilding module; and the mesh rebuilding module is constructed to form a final Delaunay mesh through the sampling point. The method is easy to realize and has good manifestation on the mesh quality compared with the prior method.

An electronic device estimates a pose of a hand by volumetrically deforming a signed distance field using a skinned tetrahedral mesh to locate a local minimum of an energy function, wherein the local minimum corresponds to the hand pose. The electronic device identifies a pose of the hand by fitting an implicit surface model of a hand to the pixels of a depth image that correspond to the hand. The electronic device uses a skinned tetrahedral mesh to warp space from a base pose to a deformed pose to define an articulated signed distance field from which the hand tracking module derives candidate poses of the hand. The electronic device then minimizes an energy function based on the distance of each corresponding pixel to identify the candidate pose that most closely approximates the pose of the hand.

The invention discloses a method and system for determining a feedback force in a virtual cardiovascular interventional operation training system. The method includes the following steps that: displacement trajectory segments of a guide wire, topologic information of inner elements of the tetrahedral meshes of a blood vessel, and associated information of the triangular patches of the inner wall of the blood vessel and a space bounding box are obtained; based on the above results, whether the guide wire and the blood vessel collide is judged; if the guide wire and the blood vessel collide, the coordinates of a collision point and the coordinates of a force sense interaction device of a guide wire node are determined; and a virtual feedback force between the guide wire and the blood vessel is determined according to the coordinates of the collision point and the coordinates of the force sense interaction device of the guide wire node. With the method and system provided by the embodiments of the invention adopted, technical problems in accurately determining a virtual feedback force between a guide wire and a blood vessel in real time can be solved.

The invention discloses a method for modeling a three-dimensional finite element model. In accordance with a similar electromagnetic rail gun, a three-phase bus slot, such as power cable lines and tunnels, a 3-D entity with a planar symmetrical structure feature that that object is the main object is involved. In establishing the finite element model, first, a two-dimensional plane model is established, and then the finite element is divided into triangular meshes, the two-dimensional finite element model is stretched along the plane symmetry axis, at the different position of each main body object in the three-dimensional entity, the starting point of the segment stretch is determined, and the mesh is also divided in the axial direction during the stretching process, as the three-dimensional geometric model is formed, the corresponding three-dimensional finite element model is generated simultaneously, the finite element model generated by stretching is triangular prismatic mesh, andits mesh quality is better than that of tetrahedral mesh, which not only saves modeling time, but also ensures the mesh quality, and provides a new idea for the modeling method of three-dimensional finite element model of electromagnetic field numerical computation.

The invention discloses a numerical algorithm suitable for calculating the VRMS uniformity of a magnetic field. The numerical algorithm is characterized by comprising the following steps: step (1), dispersing a region to be calculated into tetrahedral meshes; step (2) carrying out interpolation representation on the magnetic field in each tetrahedron by virtue of a primary function; step (3) determining the interpolation point in each tetrahedron and calculating the coefficient of the interpolation primary function according to the magnetic field at the interpolation point; and step (4) introducing an expansion equation of the primary function of the magnetic field into an integral formula to calculate the VRMS value of the magnetic field in an imaging region. The numerical algorithm disclosed by the invention has the benefits that the uniformity of the magnetic field in any region can be precisely calculated by virtue of the calculation method given by the invention; the numerical algorithm has a quite large range of application and a quite high calculation precision and can be used for calculating the magnetic field in the imaging region including but not limited to balls, ellipsoids, columns, cubs and the like. The precision of the algorithm can be obtained by adjusting the size of the meshes.

The invention provides a piston mesh division structure which is used for conducting CAE analysis on a piston. A mesh enveloping model of the piston comprises a first mesh model and a second mesh model, wherein the first mesh model envelops a piston body, and the second mesh model envelops a piston pin hole part of the piston body. The second mesh model is a hexahedral mesh enveloping model built on the piston pin hole part. CAE analysis meshes on the piston pin hole part are divided into hexahedral meshes, the hexahedral meshes are high in quality and uniform in density, contact analysis operation can be easily converged, the number of the hexahedral meshes is smaller than the number of tetrahedral meshes, and therefore high processing speed can be acquired, a more accurate analysis result can be acquired, and the solving speed of CAE analysis of the piston is higher.

The invention provides an inside-to-outside hexahedron grid generation method which comprises the following steps of: (1) interactively constructing a principal direction reconciling field according to the input tetrahedron grid of an entity body domain; (2) constructing an initial hexahedron grid in the body domain and a radial reconciling field by use of the principal direction reconciling field; and (3) with the guide of the principal direction reconciling field and the radial reconciling field, pushing the initial hexahedron grid to the entity boundary from inside to outside to generate a hexahedron grid of the entity body domain. The method provided by the invention can generate high-quality hexahedron grids with uniform sizes and regular arrangement for a quasi-cylindrical body domain, and can establish a high-simulation finite element model for various numerical simulation problems.

The present invention belongs to the technical field of numerical analysis of three-dimensional thermal analysis and relates to a three-dimensional finite element simulation method based on heat radiation boundary conditions. The method comprises: carrying out modeling on a device to be subjected to the thermal analysis, introducing radiation boundary conditions into the heat conduction problem, and obtaining the finite element weak form of the heat radiation boundary conditions by adopting the method of Galerkin residual weighting; using the tetrahedral meshed model to select the second-orderlaminated basis function and the discrete finite element weak form equation, obtaining a finite element matrix and aright-end vector by cooperating with the Newton-Raphson iteration method, and integrating the final equation; and finally, by using the scientific nonlinear convergence criteria, through continuous iteration, quickly and accurately obtaining final numerical results.

The invention relates to an extension PBD (Position Based Dynamics) based skinning technology and weight re-locating method in character animation. Aiming at a given triangular mesh, a corresponding tetrahedral mesh is generated. Stretching constraint, volume constraint, self-collision constraint and energy constraint of extension PBD are initialized aiming at the tetrahedral mesh and summit weights of the triangular mesh and the tetrahedral mesh are calculated and optimized at the same time. Transformation of the triangular mesh and the tetrahedral mesh is realized through LBS (Linear Blended Skinning) technology. The LBS transformation result is optimized through the extension PBD. Joint areas of the triangular mesh are smoothed by utilizing a Lapras method. Double harmonic distance fields of the original mesh and the new mesh are calculated separately and corresponding points of the two meshes are given and a prediction function is defined. Corresponding point, on the original mesh, of all the summits on the new mesh are calculated through the prediction function and the weights are obtained. The invention realizes a weight-relocating algorithm and is good in practicability.

A real-time simulation method of elastic materials based on an exemplar in a Laplace-Beltrami shape space includes the steps that by means of a Laplace-Beltrami operator and a linear finite element discretization method, characteristic functions and characteristic values of a simulation object and the exemplar on a three-dimensional tetrahedral mesh are calculated; the characteristic function of the exemplar and the characteristic function of the simulation object are subjected to registration; the position of the simulation object is projected in the Laplace-Beltrami shape space, and the shape of a target on an exemplar fashion is solved through non-linear shape interpolation; a final deformation result under an Euclidean space is obtained by building a local coordinate system on each vertex at current moment and adding shape details; a deformed object simulation kinetic equation under a non-inertial system is solved by means of a dimensionality reduction subspace built on a modal substrate, and displacement under a dimensionality reduction space at a new moment is obtained; the displacement under the dimensionality reduction space is projected to obtain global displacement by means of a projection matrix calculated in the preprocessing process under global and dimensionality reduction spaces, and a deformation result is drawn.

The invention provides an impact response simulation analog method based on a novel hybrid stress tetrahedron unit, and belongs to the field of computational mechanics. When the method solves an impact dynamics problem, the good fitting of a tetrahedron grid for a complex structure is kept, meanwhile, the accuracy of a stress field is improved, and the method is an explicit dynamics numerical value calculation method with good stability. Meanwhile, on the basis of a traditional tetrahedron unit, knot stress is subjected to smoothing, the complex model can be subjected to favorable fitting, inaddition, unit stress accuracy is greatly improved, and meanwhile, a calculated amount is small.

The invention discloses a method and system for establishing and analyzing a flow field model of a communication room. The method comprises following steps: establishing a three-dimensional model of a communication room; dividing the three-dimensional model of the communication room by the tetrahedral grid type to obtain an unstructured grid; setting the boundary types of a wall surface of the communication room and a frame surface of the communication room as the wall surface, and a boundary type of an air-conditioning supply outlet of the communication room as a speed inlet; based on the unstructured grid and by selecting the K-[epsilon] turbulence model, starting calculation from the speed inlet to obtain a temperature field and a speed field of the communication room after N times of iteration; establishing a flow field model of the communication room by means of the temperature field and the speed field of the communication room; analyzing multiple conditions of the communication room by means of the flow field model of the communication room and making an energy saving scheme of the communication room. The invention can reduce the running cost of the communication room, comprehensively analyze the flow field environment of the communication room, formulate an energy saving scheme of the computer room and improve the accuracy of the energy saving control.