Company:Major automotive OEM Products:Digimat Industries:Automotive | Simulating SMC part response with greater confidence using Digimat Overview: While Sheet Molded Compound (SMC) materials have been widely used in the automotive industry for some time, recently there has been a move to apply SMCs on more structurally demanding components. Though the material has long been considered quasi-isotropic with relative success, it has become apparent in industry that due to the complex manufacturing process, optimal structural design is not possible without considering the real anisotropic nature of the material.. With growing demand from the market, now is the time to leverage advanced SMC modeling capabilities targeting crash performance. Results Validation: Static and crash FEA simulations can now attain an excellent level of accuracy in stiffness and can capture peak load and displacement trends for typical part load cases. The inner seat part illustrates the proposed workflow from process simulation to structural application. The Digimat simulation achieves a much better fit with respect to test data for most load cases, including head impact (puncture) and provide a good indication of hot spot localizations. | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Company:Robert Bosch Engineering and Solutions Pvt Ltd Products:Simufact Additive Industries:Additive Manufacturing | Bosch: Overcome additive manufacturing issues by process simulation Challenge: Avoid additive manufacturing issues (distortion, residual stress) and establish a “right first time” manufacturing process. Solution: Build process simulation helped Bosch to predict manufacturing issues and to find the right countermeasures to optimize the AM build process. | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Company:Vellore Institute of Technology Products:Adams Industries:Automotive | Improving Ride and Handling of Formula Student Car Using Adams Car Challenge: Zuura Formula Racing is a student team from the Vellore Institute of Technology in Chennai, India that participates regularly in the Formula SAE student competition organized across the globe by SAE Interna-tional. For participating teams, the task at hand is to develop a small formula-style race car. Each student team designs, builds and tests a prototype based on a series of rules, aimed at ensuring on-track safety and promoting clever problem solving. The prototype is evaluated for its potential as a production item. During the course of this project, one of the focus areas for the Zuura Formula Racing team was to ensure good suspension for their vehicle. To achieve this, they needed to ensure that the tires were as perpendicu-lar to the ground as possible to achieve maximum traction. The front geometry had to be designed such that it had a negative camber in jounce. This was an important factor in keeping the wheels perpendicular to the ground, and also to resist body roll. The main target before the vehicle dynamics simulation engineer at Zuura Formula Racing was to improve the ride and handling of the vehicle by reducing yaw, pitch and roll rates. Solution: The Zuura Formula Racing team used the Adams Car software from MSC Software. Adams Car allows students to design and simulate their FSAE vehicles to maximize their vehicle performance. With Adams Car, FSAE teams can quickly build and test their functional virtual prototypes of complete vehicles and vehicle subsystems. FSAE engineering teams can exercise their vehicle designs under various road condi-tions, performing the same tests they normally run in a test lab or on a test track, but in a fraction of time. | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Company:Hyundai Motor Company Products:Actran Acoustics Industries:Automotive | Actran Helps Reduce Time to Optimize Design of Active Pedestrian Alerting System by 50% Challenge: Save time in finding the best Active Pedestrian Alerting System design without prototype Solution: Apply Actran to study complete speaker driver and its interactions with its acoustic environment | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Company:Hitachi Mito Engineering Co., Ltd. Products:PICLS Industries:Automotive | Real-time solutions for thermal problems | ![]() ![]() |
Company:Murata Machinery, Ltd.R&D Headquarters, Kyoto, Japan Products:scPOST Industries:Automotive | Fluid analysis software helps visualize the unobservable space, shorten development time and demonstrate product mechanism | ![]() ![]() |
Company:Payette Products:scPOST Industries:Automotive | The accurate CFD software that throttles up building design and energy modeling processes | ![]() ![]() |
Company:Panasonic Corporation Products:scSTREAM | HeatDesigner Industries:Automotive | Thermal fluid analyses for the design of the world’s smallest optical disc drive - Applying to fuel cell systems and other energy products | ![]() ![]() |
Company:Nikken Sekkei Ltd Products:scSTREAM | HeatDesigner Industries:Automotive | Corporate BIM strategies of an institutional architect office: assisting architectural designs with simulations using “scSTREAM” | ![]() ![]() |
Company:Products:scSTREAM | HeatDesigner Industries:Automotive | Using scSTREAM to evaluate airflow in production facilities improves the understanding and enables effective presentations | ![]() ![]() |
Company:CaptiveAire Systems, Inc. Products:scSTREAM | HeatDesigner Industries:Automotive | Using CFD to measure humidity evacuation efficiency for a kitchen exhaust hood system | ![]() ![]() |
Company:National Research Institutefor Cultural Properties, Tokyo Products:scSTREAM | HeatDesigner Industries:Automotive | CFD assists in hygrothermal control for preservation of cultural artifacts and contributes to overall energy savings | ![]() ![]() |
Company:WayRay Products:scSTREAM | HeatDesigner Industries:Automotive | Applying MSC Cradle CFD to WayRay’s holographic AR navigation cooling system development | ![]() ![]() |
Company:Lion Corporation Products:scSTREAM | HeatDesigner Industries:Automotive | Effective ventilation for quickly drying wet laundry indoors by hanging clothes in an arch on square hangers (published on Lidea) | ![]() ![]() |
Company:Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. Products:scFLOW | SC/Tetra Industries:Automotive | MSC Cradle CFD helps Yamaha Motor be competitive in MotoGP Design improvements of 0.01 second sought | ![]() ![]() |