Technical papers

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…

A Case Study of an Automotive Roof with Cost Analysis

The automotive engineers are seeking the best manufacturing processes in order to meet the highly exigent requirements in terms of lightweight and cost. The main scope of the present paper is to give an understanding of…

Effects of Manufacturing Process in Crash Simulations

This article describes an impact of a manufacturing, which can significantly change real parts behavior. The influence of technology process is neglected in regular simulations. However, advanced finite elements solvers…

Hybrid strategy to simulate millimeter-wave RADAR devices for automotive ADAS

A multiscale hybrid strategy is proposed to simulate Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) in both Short Radar Range (SRR) and Long Radar Range (LRR). The first development stage was focusing on small sized radar…

Advancements in tailored hot stamping simulations: cooling channel and distortion analyses

Hot stamped components have been widely used in the automotive industry in the last decade where ultra high strength is required. These parts, however, may not provide sufficient toughness to absorb crash energy.…

Aero Forming - An Introduction of Collaborative Engineering

The decrease of physical prototypes and the growing power of simulation in the design process require greater control in the design chain calculation. This is the main reason for the arrival of SDM in the perimeter of…

Collaborative development of finite element models for Honeycomb crash test barriers: Crash / Volkswagen

Deformable barriers used in car crash testing are based on aluminium honeycomb blocks covered by aluminium plates. These structures, that largely deform and tear during crash tests, represent a challenge for the…

Enhancements and validation of FPM fluid structure interaction module applied to curtain airbag deployment

Models to represent in position situations based upon uniform pressure assumptions are well established and have been used extensively in the automotive industry for more than 15 years. More recently, in the beginning…

Virtual prototyping of lightweight designs made with cold and hot formed tailored solutions

Tailored hot and cold formed solutions are one key to the lightweight construction challenges of the future. Only tailored solutions allow the combination of soft and hard zones for the best possible crash performance…

Development of system identification technique for the control of structually flexible SMT machines

Acquiring dynamic characteristics of a system is an important issue for predicting and evaluating the system’s performance in early development stages in order to shorten the development time as well as to meet required…