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American Society of Mechanics Engineers

Council on Codes and Standards

Board on Performance Test Codes

Committee #60

Verification and Validation in Computational Solid Mechanics
(Above link is to Committee's ASME web site)

[Formerly US Association for Computational Mechanics
ad hoc Committee on V&V in Solid Mechanics, 1999-2001]

Charter
To develop standards for assessing the correctness and credibility
of modeling and simulation in computational solid mechanics.


Special Topic Drafts:

Calibration in Computational Mechanics [23KB PDF]
A Posteriori Error Estimation [106KB PDF Apr02]
Experimental Data Requirements [18KB PDF Version 2]
Non-Determinism Requirements [13KB PDF]
Benchmarks [50KB PDF]
Constitutive Model V&V [62KB PDF 14May01]
Constitutive Model V&V for Softening Materials [22KB PDF 5Jul01]
Sargent Circle with Terms & Concepts [156KB PDF]
Method of Manufactured Solutions: Demonstrations [92KB PDF 03Sep02]
State-of-the-Art Review:
Verification, Validation, and Predictive Capability in Computational Engineering and Physics Oberkampf, Trucano & Hirsch (2002) [334KB PDF]
Next Committee Meeting:

Date: 22 and 23 April 2005
Place: AIAA SDM Conference in Austin TX
Committee Contact: Ben Thacker (ben.thacker@swri.org)
 

Future Committee Events:

Event: United States Congress on Computational Mechanics

Short Course on Verification and Validation
Date: 24 July 2005
Place: Austin, TX
Contact: Len Schwer ( Len@Schwer.net )

Event: World Congress on Computational Mechanics

Minisymposium on Verification & Validation in Computational Mechanics
Date: 16-22 July 2006
Place: Los Angeles, CA
Contact: Len Schwer ( Len@Schwer.net )


Last updated    04 February 2005
L.E. Schwer (Len@Schwer.net)