Technical papers

Influence of Computational Grid and Deposit Volume on Residual Stress and Distortion Prediction Accuracy for Additive Manufacturing Modeling

Powder Bed Additive Manufacturing offers unique advantages in terms of cost, lot size and manufacturability of complex products. The energy used however leads to distortions during the process. The distortion of single…

Integration of Machine Learning and Visualization for Effective Design Exploration

The world of CAE is experiencing continued growth in the number of variables involved in a Design of Experiments, either from combining various domains or expanding the complexity of models. Engineers are now facing…

Compression Resin Transfer Molding (C-RTM) Simulation Using a Coupled Fluid-solid Approach

Composite materials are being used at an increasing rate in the automotive industry due to their superior mechanical properties at low densities leading to lightweight components.  Continuing this trend requires the…

ESI VPS multiscale performance simulation for laser structured Composite-Metal joints

An economic utilization of modern engineering materials can only be achieved through a combination of different materials depending on the local design requirements. This further leads to questions about the joinability…

Modelling Powder Bed Additive Manufacturing Defects

The qualification of powder bed fusion processes is based on lengthy and expensive experimental trial and error. If models can be applied to predict process details and determine the probability of manufacturing defects…

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…

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…

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…

Coupled Vibro-Acoustic and CFD Modeling Solution for Complex-Shaped Mufflers Subject

Flow within a duct strongly affects the propagation of acoustic waves. This effect must be addressed by the vibroacoustic modeling of duct systems that are subject to flow. The effective sound propagation speed in a…

Inverse Characterization Method For Draping Simulation Based On Automatic Measurement Of Fiber Orientation

FibreMap project aims at the development of an automatic quality control and feedback mechanism to improve draping of carbon fibers on complex parts. There is a strong need in the automotive industry for automatic…