R. Aitsadi et al., A 2D AND AXISYMMETRICAL FINITE-ELEMENT ENVIRONMENT BASED UPON STEP TYPE DATABASE, IEEE transactions on magnetics, 30(5), 1994, pp. 3622-3624
An existing finite element program has been extended to use a STEP com
patible database for storage and retrieval of model, mesh and solution
information. The database system is configured by a data dictionary d
erived,from an EXPRESS schema. The database helps to create an open, e
xtendable environment and this has been demonstrated by adding stress,
thermal and mesh adaption procedures to the existing software.