ASME Standards Committee on Verification and Validation in Computational Solid Mechanics

In the Summer of 1999 the United States Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM) approved the formation of an ad hoc Committee on Verification and Validation in Computational Solid Mechanics. The immediate objectives of this Committee were to : 1. Develop verification and validation (V&V) guidelines for computational solid mechanics, similar to those developed for computational fluid dynamics by the Computational Fluid Dynamics Committee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), 2. Pursue becoming a standards committee under an organization with a standards process accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). By briefly reviewing the history of the Committee, and highlighting its accomplishments, those interested in verification & validation in computational solid mechanics will be provided with a sense of who the Committee is and what it intends to accomplish through its work. ASME formally approved the formation of the Standards Committee on Verification and Validation in Computational Solid Mechanics in June 2001. The Committee operates under the direction of the Board on Performance Test Codes. The Committee has been developing supporting documents of its envisioned Guidelines for Verification and Validation in Computational Solid Mechanics. An overview of the proposed guidelines and a brief review of several draft documents will be provided, e.g. ○ Constitutive Model Verification and Validation, ○ Non-Determinism Requirements, ○ A Posteriori Error Estimation, ○ Calibration in Computational Mechanics, ○ Experimental Requirements for Validation, ○ Benchmarks. Other sections are planned and are being written by Committee members. The Committee maintains a web site, and email distribution list, to help communicate its activities to the computational mechanics community. The web site is hosted by USACM at the URL: http://www.usacm.org/vnvcsm The web site contains instructions for subscribing to the open email distribution list.