The combination of simulation and materials information management provides vital insights to reduce trial and error. Thanks to a new partnership between ANSYS and Granta Design engineers and scientists can now effectively manage and leverage materials information for additive manufacturing.

Altair has acquired SIMSOLID, a company founded by asking a simple question: "Why does the geometry used in the Design and Structural Simulation worlds have to be so different?? SIMSOLID works on full-fidelity CAD assemblies to provide fast, accurate, and robust structural simulation without requiring geometry simplification, cleanup, or meshing.

On October 18 - 19, 2019 carhs and the Bioengineering Center at the Wayne State University (Detroit, MI, USA) successfully held the 7th International Symposium "Human Modeling and Simulation in Automotive Engineering" in Berlin, Germany.

In two days, participants learned from 36 lectures by international human modeling experts all about the latest developments and applications of human models in automotive engineering. At the conference and at the evening event a lively exchange was possible.

The prize for the best work of a young scientist has been awarded this year to Niclas Trube from the Fraunhofer EMI research institute for his presentation: "Simulated muscle responses upon frontal crash pulses considering changes in muscle stiffness using THUMS v5"

When developing new plastic products, it is very valuable to be able to fall back on existing information. In view of shorter development cycles, material databases are becoming increasingly important.