Brian Carnahan and Lewis N. Payton, faculty in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at the Ginn College of Engineering, are the recipients of a two-year $100,000 grant entitled "Evolutionary Design of Finite Element Meshes for Injury Biomechanics Research" administered by the Southern Consortium of Injury Biomechanics Research.

 

The long-term objective of this research is to provide an affordable, accurate, responsive and timely tool for biomechanics research. Although finite element analysis has been used in place of human cadaver impact and loading studies, it remains expensive in terms of the computational time and the expertise required of the operator.

 

This study will seek to simplify the input grid generation schemes through the use of evolutionary computation techniques for finite element mesh design.