Patent Document ID: 20110301920
Application ID: 13048322
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method executed in a computer system for matching a computed curve to a target curve representing material behaviors in computer aided engineering simulations, said method comprising: receiving a definition of a target curve by an application module installed in a computer system; obtaining a computed curve using a computer aided engineering analysis model configured for creating the computed curve via a plurality of control parameters; designating a shorter one of the target and the computed curves as a shorter curve and a longer one as a longer curve, the short curve being defined by a first set of points while the longer curve being defined by a second set of points; creating a set of mapped points by mapping the first set of points onto the longer curve using a mapping scheme that contains one or more partial matching attempts, one of the partial matching attempts results that possesses a best match amongst all of the partial matching attempts is designated as said set of mapped points, wherein said best match is determined using a discrepancy measurement calculated between each of the mapped points and corresponding one of the first set of points for each of the partial matching attempts; iteratively updating the computed curve by adjusting the control parameters until said discrepancy between the computed and target curves is within a tolerance; and storing the control parameters along with the computer aided engineering analysis model into a file on a storage device coupled to the computer system upon user's instructions.