A SIMPLE BEAM ELEMENT, LARGE-DISPLACEMENT MODEL FOR THE FINITE-ELEMENT SIMULATION OF CLOTH DRAPE

The behaviour of cloth draped about a human body form is simulated by modelling a garment as a mesh of simple beam finite elements, with geo metric stiffness to account for large displacement behaviour, and carr ying out a dynamic, time-stepping analysis to predict its behaviour as it falls from an initial horizontal position to the final draped posi tion, The body form is based on anthropomorphic data produced by a sha dow scanner, A novel scheme is introduced to model the contact between the cloth and the underlying body form, The model is used to provide data for an animated display which is found to simulate the drape of t he garment sufficiently realistically for the garment designer's purpo ses.