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
Integrating Design Portal System
As part of the effort to create the new aero space craft, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) analysed and optimized their design processes. The INTEGRATING DESIGN PORTAL SYSTEM (IDPS) helps to…
Virtual Integration Platform web portal, workflow design, optimization and management, project management, integration with LDAP, ARIS and enterprise knowledgebase
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
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
Modeling Constellation Virtual Missions Using the Vdot Process Management Tool
The authors have identified a software tool suite that will support NASA’s Virtual Mission (VM) effort. This is accomplished by transforming a spreadsheet database of mission events, task inputs and outputs, timelines,…
Virtual Integration Platform