Automotive CAE Grand Challenge 2010
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The conference automotive CAE Grand Challenge - held in March 2009 for the first time – has been a great success. The reactions of the participants, the speakers and the exhibitors have been very positive. Especially the novel concept – focusing on a few selected Challenges of automotive CAE – was highly appreciated. This motivates carhs.training to conduct the 2nd automotive CAE Grand Challenge on the 30th and 31st of March 2010 in Hanau (Germany).
Motivation for the conference
In the past decades computer simulation has become an indispensable tool in automotive development. Advances in applied mechanics, numerical methods and computer technology today permit the simulation of complex phenomena of automotive engineering and allow predicting the behaviour of products and processes before physical prototypes are built.
Computer simulation today covers almost all aspects of product and process design like aerodynamics, crashworthiness or manufacturability. The capabilities of current simulation methods in many cases render precise quantitative predictions of the performance of products and processes. In those cases in which this is not possible simulation will at least allow the evaluation of design alternatives.
Despite the progress in simulation technology and impressive results in industrial application a number of problems remain unsolved which prevent more exact and reliable predictions and limit the further replacement of physical tests and prevent the “100% virtual prototyping” in automotive development. These problems include the prediction of material failure, the description of advanced materials and airbag unfolding as well as more practical issues like engineering process and simulation data management. We at carhs.training call these problems Grand Challenges!
Objective of the Conference
carhs.training wants to help overcome these challenges and contribute to the improvement of simulation methods for automotive development by organizing the conference “automotive CAE Grand Challenge”. It is the objective of the “automotive CAE Grand Challenge” to motivate basic research and software development to advance computer simulation in automotive development by solving the “Grand Challenges”.
Conference Concept and Topics
Through a survey recently performed among simulation experts of the automotive industry carhs.training has identified the Grand Challenges for 2010:
- Material Models (including failure) of Plastics in Crash Simulation
- Durability / Fatigue of Composite Materials
- Airbag Simulation for Out of Position Load Cases
- Robustness of Simulation Models
- Multi Trade Simulation (e.g. Stamp/Crash, Casting/Durability)
- Multidisciplinary Optimization
In the conference a session will be dedicated to each “Grand Challenge”. In each session a simulation expert from the automotive industry will first explain the technical and economical importance of the individual challenge. Next a researcher will explain the state of research on the subject. This will be followed by presentations from the software companies involved in the discipline on their efforts to solve the individual challenge.
Structure of the Sessions for each Grand Challenge
The conference wants to improve the communication between industrial users, researchers and software developers. The participants will have the opportunity to inform themselves about the state of research and the competing solutions of the software providers.
Conference Program
Challenge 1: Durability & Fatigue of Composite Materials
Plenary Session Room A - Tuesday, March 30: 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Industry Requirements
Jaguar Landrover: Industry Reqiurements for Durability and Fatique Analysis of Composites
Research State of the Art
Dominik Laveuve / Katrin Jaschek - Fraunhofer-Institut für Betriebsfestigkeit LBF: Durability & Fatigue of Composite Materials - Research State of the Art
Software Solutions
Helmut Dannbauer - Magna Powertrain ECS: Durability Analsis of Short Fibre reinforced Plastics with Consideration of the Fibre Orientation
Dr. Jens Marsolek - Dassault Systemes Simulia: Simulation of Composite Damage under Cyclic Loading with Abaqus from SIMULIA
Challenge 2: Robustness of Simulation Models
Parallel Session Room A - Tuesday, March 30: 11:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Industry Requirements
Richard Brown - Jaguar Landrover: CAE Robustness using a Crash Dummy Example
Research State of the Art
Dr. Tanja Clees, Clemens-August Thole - Fraunhofer SCAI: Robustness of Simulation Models - Research State of the Art
Software Solutions
Dr. Heiner Müllerschön - DYNAmore: Robustness of LS-DYNA Crash Models
Dr. Stylianos Seitanis - Beta CAE Systems: Addressing robustness in simulation models
Jean Michel Terrier, Marian Bulla - Altair Engineering: Robust Crash Analysis
Dr. Johannes Will - Dynardo: Robustness of Simulation Models
Challenge 3: Airbag Simulation for Out of Position Load Cases
Parallel Session Room B - Tuesday, March 30: 11:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Industry Requirements
Dr. Erich-Walter Blümcke - Audi: Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Airbag Deployments for Out of Position Load Cases
Research State of the Art
Dr. Jörg Kuhnert - Fraunhofer IWTM: Finite Pointset Method (FPM) a Purely Meshfree Simulation Tool for Airbag deployment
Software Solutions
Jutta Schlosser - ESI Group: Numerical Techniques for Modelling Airbag Deploments in Out of Position Load Cases
Sebastian Stahlschmidt, Dr. Ulrich Franz - DYNAmore: OoP Airbag Simulation with LS-DYNA
Jean Michel Terrier, Marian Bulla - Altair Engineering: Airbag Simulation for Out of Position Load Cases HyperWorks - Radioss Solution
Challenge 4: Multi Trade Simulation
Parallel Session Room A - Tuesday, March 30: 4 p.m. - Wednesday, March 31: 11:30 a.m.
Industry Requirements
Dr. Robert Schilling, Dr. Ulrich Weiss - Ford: Multi Trade Simulation - Industry Requirements
Research State of the Art
Dr. Daniel Watzenig, Dr. Eric Armengaud, Dr. Hannes Stippel - Virtual Vehicle: Cross-domain design and simulation
Software Solutions
Dr. Achim Egner-Walter - MAGMA Gießereitechnologie: Process simulation optimizes the development of metal castings and polymer parts
Dr. Helmut Gese - MATFEM: Crash Simulation of Metals and Plastics with MF GenYld+CrachFEM taking the Manufacturing Process into Account
Dr. Christian Klimmek - SimuForm: Proactive Car Body Engineering - Prediction of Forming Characteristics via Artificial Intelligence
Nick Tzannetakis - LMS: Unified modeling & multi-solver/attribute simulation
Klaus Wolf - Fraunhofer SCAI: Multi-Trade Solutions and Interfaces
Challenge 5: Material Models of Plastics for Crash Simulation
Parallel Session Room B - Tuesday, March 30: 4 p.m. - Wednesday, March 31: 11:30 a.m.
Industry Requirements
Markus Franzen, Dr. Horst Lanzerath, Dr. Robert Schilling - Ford: Material Models of Plastics for Crash Simulation - Industry Requirements
Research State of the Art
Prof. Dr. Stefan Kolling - FH-Gießen / Dr. Florian Becker - DKI / Julian Schöpfer - Daimler: From dynamic Tests of Plastics to validated Material Cards
Software Solutions
Dr. André Haufe - DYNAmore: Material Models of Plastics for Crash Simulation in LS-DYNA
Francesco Linares - EnginSoft GmbH: Optimization and robustness of complex material model simulations with modeFRONTIER
Hubert Lobo - DatapointLabs: Behavior-based Material Model Selection and Calibration of Plastics for Crash Simulation
Gernot Oberhofer - MATFEM: Modeling of Non-Reinforced and Fiber-Reinforced Polymers with Material Model MF GenYld+CrachFEM
Prof. Dr. Thomas Pyttel, Dr. Charles Thibaud, Andre Berger - ESI Group: Modeling of Plastics - Mechanical Behavior
Challenge 6: Multi Disciplinary Optimization
Plenary Session Room A - Wednesday, March 31: 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Industry Requirements
Prof. Dr. Lothar Harzheim - Opel: Multidisciplinary Optimization - Industry Requirements
Research State of the Art
Prof. Dr. Axel Schumacher - HAW Hamburg: Multi Disciplinary Optimization – Research State of the Art
Software Solutions
Stefan Braun - SmartCAE: Multi Disciplinary Optimization in Concept Modeling
George Korbetis - Beta CAE Systems: Multi-Disciplinary Design Optimization exploiting the efficiency of ANSA-LSOPT-µETA coupling
Damaso Lopez - Tecosim: TEC|PFZM - A New method to analyze vehicle structures and their potential
Marcel Mombartz - Dassault Systemes Simulia: Process Automation and Optimization with the Software Robot Isight from Simulia
Dr. Johannes Will - Dynardo: MDO - Metamodell of optimized Prognosis (MoP) - an Automatic Approach for User Friendly Parameter Optimization
Time Schedule:
Tuesday March 30:
Registration 8 a.m. - 9 a.m.
Sessions 9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
hosts the evening reception and dinner at 7 p.m.Wednesday March 31:
Sessions 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
If you wish to contribute a paper or participate to the accompanying exhibition contact Dr. Dirk Ulrich.
Find out more about our attractive sponsoring and exhibition offerings:
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| Automotive CAE Grand Challenge 2010 | |
| Instructor(s) | verschiedene Referenten |
| Date | on Tuesday, 30 Mar 2010, 9:00 am |
| Duration | 2 days |
| Location | Congress Park Hanau |
| Fee | €500 bis 02.03.2010, danach €550 |
| Code | 1372 |
| Category | Events |
| Language |
 English |
Note: Information above subject to change.