Computational

Subcommittee on Computational Mechanics - AKD20(1)

Chair:

Nauman Sheikh

Subcommittee Vision:

The mission of the Subcommittee is to promote use and advancement of computational mechanics in support of roadside safety research and development.

Subcommittee Goals and Objectives

• Identify needs for enhancing the use of computational mechanics capabilities in roadside safety research

• Promote sharing and dissemination of information regarding simulation capabilities, advancements, and applications in support of roadside safety research and development

• Identify & evaluate new modeling & simulation methodologies

• Collaborate and foster relationships with simulation code developers to improve simulation codes for roadside safety problems

• Discuss the role of simulation to support roadside hardware design, modification, and policy decision making

• Identify, evaluate, and improve simulation verification and validation methods

Subcommittee Activities

Annual and mid-year Subcommittee meetings that incorporate many presentations addressing the goals and objectives of the Subcommittee. These may include the following:

• Latest completed or ongoing research that incorporates use of computational mechanics for solving roadside safety problems

• Discussions and feedback solicitation in support of identifying and developing new research problem statements

• Presentations from a variety of researchers addressing a common problem or a challenge faced with the computational mechanics community in the context of roadside safety research

Annual or bi-annual hands-on computational mechanics workshop that is focused on open discussions between the analysts with the following objectives:

• Approaches taken and lessons learned in solving common challenges related to computational mechanics

• Evaluation of material models, modeling techniques, verification and validation methods, etc. and seeking input from other researchers and analysts in the area