ESRD's primary mission is create and market software tools for the advancement of the quality, reliability and timeliness of information that serves the engineering decision-making process.

Motivated by economic incentives, CAE users want to reduce physical testing and increase reliance on numerical simulation.

• Technical requirement: Predictions based on numerical simulation must be consistently reliable.
• The conceptual and technological prerequisites are now sufficiently mature for industrial applications. The terms verification and validation are used in formulating the new requirements:
  • Verification refers to a process by which it is ascertained that the errors of approximation are within acceptable limits.
  • Validation refers a process by which it is ascertained that the mathematical model is a reasonable representation of the physical reality it is supposed to represent.

ESRD’s software product StressCheck was designed to support V&V tasks.