USE OF MPP-DYNA FOR SIMULATING SHEET METAL FORMING PROCESSES

Sheet forming simulations have been shown to have a profound impact on the tool and die industry, but accurate solutions for large panels often require large amounts of CPU time. The development of MPP-DYNA has allowed a large number of CPUs to be applied to a single problem thus reducing total elapsed time. This paper discusses the use of MPP-DYNA for obtaining accurate solutions in small amounts of elapsed time using inexpensive PC-based clusters of computers