Large-scale application of some modern CSM methodologies by parallel computation

In this paper, the authors demonstrate the significant benefits that High Performance Computing has provided for several large-scale applications of some modern Computational Structural Mechanics (CSM) methodologies. Large complex dynamic analyses, involving large strain/deformation and inelasticity, were reasonably performed by parallel processing with recent constitutive models and modern computational techniques. The predictions were made with finite element and mesh-free method software developed by the authors, using Message Passing interface on GRAY T3E and IBM SP platforms. Excellent scalability on hundreds of processors was attained, which demonstrated the large-scale viability of the methodologies and greatly improved the authors' research and development productivity, (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.