Patent Document ID: 8401827
Application ID: 12417473
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. Processing device for structure data representing a physical structure, comprising: a non-transitory tangible computer readable medium comprising: an obtainer module for obtaining structure data representing a physical structure; a parts defining module for subdividing said structure data into at least two parts including a connection part and a material part; a meshing module for generating a mesh model approximating said physical structure by, identifying at least one part of said connection part and said material part for noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) analysis, static analysis, and dynamic analysis, determining mesh element sizes for said connection part and said material part based on said NVH analysis, said static analysis, and said dynamic analysis, and transforming said connection part and said material part into mesh elements having different sizes wherein there is an interface between mesh elements of the connection part and mesh elements of the material part, wherein a size of the mesh elements of the material part progressively increases moving away from the interface into the material part, and, wherein the mesh element sizes of said connection part are smaller than the mesh element sizes of said material part; and a processing module for processing said mesh model to estimate physical properties of said physical structure.