Technical papers

Assessment of Aircraft Pilot Seat Performances with Digital Human Models and Virtual Prototypes
Abstract. In the aeronautic industry, some research is currently carried out to improve pilot seating and lying comfort, as well as cockpit ergonomics and accessibility. Pilots spend indeed a lot of…
Virtual Seat Aircraft Pilot Seat, Virtual Prototyping, Digital Human Modeling, Static Comfort, Postural Comfort, Vibratory Comfort, Thermal Comfort, ESI’s Virtual Seat Solution for Aero
Overcoming Interior Design Challenges to Improve the Comfort of Future Vehicles
Abstract The automotive industry is experiencing a major transformation driven by societal and environmental trends leading to an acceleration of autonomous driving, electrification and new mobility solutions. Therefore…
Virtual Seat
Virtual Temperature Controlled Seat Performance Test
The demand for seating comfort is growing – in cars as well as trucks and other commercial vehicles. This is expected as the seat is the largest surface area of the vehicle that is in contact with the occupant. While it…
Virtual Seat Heated, Ventilated, Seat, Life Cycle Performance, Cushion Compression, Thermal Comfort, Virtual Seat Solution
Virtual Seat Manufacturing and Testing for FMVSS 202a Backset Prediction
CAE capabilities have long been used for performing static and dynamic structural analysis during the seat design process. More recently, the soft parts of the seat including foams, trim and suspension have also been…
Virtual Seat
End-to-End Seat Virtual Prototyping from Manufacturing to Performances
Today, in the transportation industry, two antagonist phenomena lead the OEMs to change radically their design processes. On the one hand, the technical constraints which influence the design of the vehicles and…
Virtual Seat
New finite element human models representing elderly, disabled and overweight people for aircraft seat comfort simulation
In the growing but highly competitive market of the airline industry, airliners have to differentiate themselves from their competitors while increasing or maintaining their profitability. They request innovations in…
Virtual Seat Virtual Seat Prototype, Comfort, Simulation, Design, Human Model, Elderly, Overweighted, Disabled
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
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
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
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