ESI Virtual Performance Solution 2016 is a unique solution allowing manufacturers to face emerging design challenges — including those related to lightweight and green vehicles — while avoiding over-engineering. It enables design and simulation engineers to test rapidly their innovations on virtual prototypes, rather than real ones. VPS also offers a distinctive approach, allowing the virtual testing of product performance across multiple domains using a single core model.

With this latest release of ESI Virtual Performance Solution, manufacturers can predict in a more efficient way the impact of composite and advanced lightweight materials on product performance and simulate the vibration-induced noise generated by the car, using the same core model.

Highlights of this release:

• Best ever prediction of crack propagation.
• New advanced composite crash and strength models to predict rupture behavior and capability of energy absorption during a crash.
• Increase of composite structural performance prediction by taking into account manufacturing effects (fiber orientations).
• Extended capabilities for NVH to predict noise radiation combining Finite Element Method and Boundary Element Method.

Learn more about this version in Virtual Performance Solution 2016 Release Notes.