Patent ID: 7499841

Claim:
An application including program code which when executed on a computer, would cause the computer to generate a set of modeling parameters for modeling the response of a material to a set of loading conditions (a “property set”) and for visualizing the correspondence between the measured response of the material to the loading conditions and the response of the model, comprising: a first program module operable to receive test data associated with the material and to extract the loading conditions from the test data; a material model driver operable to receive the loading conditions and an initial property set and operable in response to the loading conditions and the initial property set to generate an initial model response for the material; a numerical optimization module operable to receive the test data and the model response and further operable in response to the test data and the model response to generate an optimized property set; and a graphical comparison module operable to receive the model response and the test data and operable to graphically compare and display the model response and the test data, thereby providing a user with a comparison of the correspondence between of the model response and the measured response of the material.