carhs partners with customers in automotive safety development. Our core business is automotive interior safety, pedestrian safety and crashworthiness. Our strength in these areas comes from a focus on complete system solutions. We have always regarded safety as complete systems, including the entire spectrum of biomechanics, restraint systems, sensors, occupant interaction and the structural behaviour of the interior and the complete car. Through this approach we have developed a unique understanding of safety systems which is a vital insight for our customers’ development of better products.
Our customers include all German automotive OEMs, several European OEMs and the major tier one suppliers to the global automotive industry.
Our engineers are specialist in the following areas:
- Intelligent/Adaptive Restraint Systems
- Safety of the interior compartment
- Crashworthiness in Frontal and Side Impact
- Development of Instrument Panels and Interior Trim Parts
- Robustness Management of Technical Products
Due to our close cooperation with the EASi TrainingCenter our engineers have an excellent level of knowledge and are always up to date as far as regulations and new methods are concerned.
We use the following software packages:
- ABAQUS
- LS DYNA
- MADYMO
- NASTRAN
- PAM CRASH / PAM SAFE
- ST-ORM
Project examples
Occupant protection
- Evaluation of optimisation potentials of occupant restraint systems using energy management methods
- Development of complete restraint systems (frontal/side)
- Development of belt load limiters
- Investigation of anti submarining devices
Interior
- IP Headimpact
- IP Knee impact protection
- Simulation support for the development of an instrument panel
- Simulation support for the development of a door trim
Airbags
- Folding and mapping of curtain airbags
- Development of a knee airbag
- Folding of a passenger airbag
- Study of thorax airbags – seat-mounted vs. door mounted
- Investigation of advanced driver airbag concepts
Steering Columns
- Investigation of collapsing steering columns at different load levels
Dummies
- Advanced dummy models for measuring energy absorption of different body regions
Pedestrian protection
- Validation of impactor tests
- Evaluation of sensor concepts for pedestrian protection
- Development of an automated process to locate head impact areas
Rollover
- Rollover simulation for developing improved occupant protection systems
Partners
Our partnership with leading technology enterprises allows us to enrich our offering to our customers. Our partners include: