Technical papers

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…

Virtual Integration Platform SMT machines, System identification, Transfer functions, Dynamic performance, Control algorithms

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…

CFD, Virtual Performance FPM, CFD

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…

Virtual Integration Platform, Virtual Performance

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…

Virtual Performance Crash barriers, Aluminum Honeycomb, Scaling

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…

Sheet Metal Forming, Virtual Performance Metal forming, Iron powder, Compaction, Sintering, Numerical simulation, Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

Violent Flow using a fully coupled SPH-HE approach

Designing structures located either off-shore or on-shore, able to withstand loads coming from large impacting waves or for entering water poses a major technological challenge. Virtual prototyping using advanced…

Virtual Performance

Pressure-corrected SPH with innovative particle regularization algorithms and non-uniform, initial particle distributions

This paper will present an enhanced SPH version, including some particle distribution algorithms, for which many of the well-known drawbacks of the standard SPH method are solved or, at least, relieved. Recent…