Technical papers

Quantitative Surface Quality Assessment of Car Outer Panels with a Virtual Light Room
“Quantitative Surface Quality Assessment of Car Outer Panels with a Virtual Light Room” was published by ESI, Autaza & AEA for the International Body Congress in Liviona, in 2019. Abstract.…
Sheet Metal Forming Sheet Metal Forming, Quantitative Surface Quality
Advanced RADAR Sensors Modeling for Driving Assistance Systems Testing
With Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) getting always more sophisticated, the related Virtual Prototyp-ing platforms have to propose a very high level of accuracy with improved flexibility regarding vehicles,…
Electromagnetics ADAS, RADAR sensors, Virtual Prototyping, Driving Simulators, ESI Pro-SiVIC™ platform
Virtual Manufacturing versus Challenges in Lightweight Vehicle Programmes
The paper presents a brief summary of three different R&D projects carried out in collaboration between ESI Group and a number of academic and industrial partners. All projects are directly related to producing…
Sheet Metal Forming
From Part Design to Part Production - Virtual Hot Forming Engineering Illustrated – Focus Material Modelling
In a press hardening process, significant efforts are necessary to model material behavior and combinations of material in one part, patch work, and die spotting. In this paper, a focus will be put on accurate modeling…
Sheet Metal Forming
Numerical Coupling Models for Complex Systems and Results
The paper gives a status of present electromagnetic (EM) coupling modeling capabilities. Starting from topologically designed systems, it shows how formal rules of the EM topology approach can provide guidance for EM…
Electromagnetics electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), electro- magnetic topology, numerical modeling
Analysis of 24GHz Vehicle Radar Performance with MAZDA
From the standpoint of vehicle appearance, vehicle radar units should be located behind plastic bumpers. Plastic bumpers are made of dielectric material, which causes reflection, scattering, refraction, and diffraction…
Electromagnetics
Electromagnetic Field Vulnerability of Complex System
In complex systems like ships or airplanes many tasks vital to the function of the system are executed by electronic equipment. Earlier research Camp (2004)– Nitsch (2005) has shown that there are frequency ranges in…
Electromagnetics
Simulating the Electromagnetic Susceptibility of Automotive Vehicles in collaboration with RENAULT
The tremendous increase in the use of electronic devices in the automotive sector is leading to hard-to-manage EMC situations. The Joint Study presented in this paper is demonstrating the ability of Numerical EMC to be…
Electromagnetics
Shielding Effectiveness Calculations for Cabinets (1 – 30 GHz) in collaboration with HUAWEI
This paper deals with the computation of high-frequency fields which penetrate into two different cabinets with two different air-flow hole shapes. The software used for the simulations is Efield® and the two different…
Electromagnetics high frequency, electromagnetic shielding effectiveness, FDTD, MLFMM, Efield
Advancements of Virtual Prototyping in the World of Demanding Regulations
Regulations in safety and fuel efficiency are putting more and more pressure on the Automotive Industry to move towards lightweight solutions. Consequently, innovative research and a 3G engineering approach (gage, grade…
Sheet Metal Forming, Virtual Performance, Virtual Reality Sheet Metal Forming, Material Cost Estimation, Die Face Design, Press Hardening, Welding Assembly, Lightweight, Virtual Prototyping