Abstract:

The integration of engineering visualization capabilities into those programs developed with FORTRAN language is a technical problem for many engineering researchers.In this paper,Visual C++ 8.0 is adopted as the development platform.Dynamic link libraries,process communication and shared file are used to achieve information exchange between user interface process and FORTRAN calculation process in the background.OpenGL libraries are used to achieve three-dimensional display for finite element model of bridge and visualization of engineering calculation.These techniques can not only give full play to the advantages of FORTRAN language in scientific computing,but make full use of code resources accumulated by engineering researchers over the years,and enhance the software in human-computer dialogue,interactive processing and graphical display.

Key words: engineering calculation;FORTRAN;VC++;OpenGL;visualization