Technical papers

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…

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…

Multiphysics modeling of high density IC encapsulation

A multi-physics modelling approach for simulating the plastic encapsulation of high density IC packages is presented. This modelling approach is used to predict the two-phase flow of a curing resin, the heat transfer in…

Windnoise : Coupling wind tunnel test data or cfd simulation to full vehicle vibro acoustic model

Wind noise has become in recent years a significant contributor to perceived sound inside automobiles. Many methods are nowadays available to couple wind tunnel or CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) data to a full…

Conjugate heat transfer in hypersonic flows

In certain applications, different regions of the computational domain experience flow conditions/physics that are so different that it is very difficult for a single solver to produce sufficiently accurate results…

Methodology to predict transient engine compartment air temperature following engine shut down

Cooling and heat protection of the engine compartment significantly impact the performance of combat vehicles. An increased heat load occurs during soak-back after engine shut down, where the fans are shut down. Heat is…

Numerical simulation of powder metal forming process using the SPH Method

The method of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is used for the numerical simulation of compaction of iron powder. The character of SPH allows for accurately tracking relevant material properties within a Lagrangian…