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Fact Sheet: Interface Standard for Integrated Virtual Material Modelling in Manufacturing Industry (VMAP)

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Short description/ Transmitted information	VMAP is a vendor neutral standard for CAE data-storage to enhance interoperability in virtual engineering workflows VMAP specification is freely (open & cost-free) available VMAP development kit will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike license (details currently under preparation, release planned early May 2020) VMAP Standardization Community will be organized by NAFEMS association, details to be defined
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Application scope	Describe models and results from 3D simulation tools (FEA, FVM, mesh-less models, etc.) Initial use for detailed manufacturing and product/component simulations
Goals	Flexibilization of integrated simulation tool-chains, by: Standardized exchange format for models and result properties Geometry and discretization Coordinate and unit systems Result and state variables Parameters for (material) models Meta and user data Supplied IO routines for easy implementation
Promoting bodies	NAFEMS, ITEA, VMAP Community (> 50 partner, member fee planned, similar to FMI)
Type	Own VMAP Standard rules, based on Modelica (FMI)
IT Standard classification	Interoperability Standard Integration Standard
Data format	HDF5 (https://www.hdfgroup.org/solutions/hdf5/) Binary Format
Additional available resources	https://www.vmap.eu.com/ Software vendors will prepare own documentation Under preparation Few test Cases, Guidelines “Modelling & Simulation A vision of the state of play” https://itea3.org/magazine/35/march-2020/modelling-simulation.html
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Positioning of VMAP in V-Model

Details

The only standard for exchange data in 3D CAE workflows

Remark:

VMAP is based on the ITEA VMAP project –
See also
- “Modelling & Simulation A vision of the state of play”
- https://itea3.org/magazine/35/march-2020/modelling-simulation.html

Reached goals:

Standard released and in use within a growing user and implementor community

Further goals

Addressing new use-cases within Multi-Scale Material simulation and Manufacturing Modelling
- A follow-up project called “VMAP analytics - Smart Analytics for Multi-Scale Material and Manufacturing Modelling” has received ITEA label and will probably start in November 2020 (https://itea3.org/project/vmap-analytics.html)
Setting a global de-facto standard

Relevance and Benefit for MBSE

The standard allows the community to utilize multi-disciplinary simulation processes based on standarad data exchange between the dedicated simulation domains
This capabilty simplifies the usage and by this widens the availability of multi-disciplinary simulation to the MBSE

Risks and Impediments

Extend the usage within more simulation tools
Expand the usage over more simulation disciplins
Simplify the usage by providing libraries for a more simple migration from specifc and individual interfaces to VMAP

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