Side Impact - Requirements and Development Strategies

Description

In addition to the frontal impact, the protection in a side impact has a fixed place in the development of vehicles. Continuous aggravation of consumer tests and legal regulations, due to new pole tests (UN ECE R135 and U.S. NCAP), enhanced deformable barriers and the introduction of World-SID Dummies (5 / 50%ile) with test specific measuring methods are causing a need to further improve side impact protection. In order to achieve this enhancement, it is necessary to get a much more profound understanding of the highly complex phenomena and modes of action in a side impact which goes far beyond the simple application of additional airbags. The seminar provides a comprehensive overview of today's standard test procedures including country-specific variations, the legal regulations and the requirements of consumer protection as well as an outlook on changes in the near future. In addition, tools, measuring methods and criteria, and virtual methods such as crash and occupant simulation, as well as the analysis of the performance of the restraint systems will be discussed. Furthermore it will be explained how a target-oriented use of CAE-simulation and hardware tests can lead to optimal passenger values, while at the same time obeying to boundary conditions such as costs, weight and time-to-market. A workshop with crash-data analysis finally deepens the understanding.

Who should attend?

The seminar addresses development engineers who are new in the field of side crash, or who have already gained some experience in the field of safety, as well as developers of assemblies that have to fulfil a sidecrash-relevant function. Furthermore it is also interesting for project managers and managers, who deal with side impact and who would like to gain a deeper understanding of this topic in order to use it for an improvement of procedures.

Course Contents

• Challenges of side impacts
• Explanation of the different measuring means, in particular the different dummies
• Overview of current test procedures and side impact relevant protection criteria
  • Legal tests (FMVSS 214, UN ECE R95, UN ECE R135, ...)
  • Other tests (Euro NCAP, U.S. NCAP, further NCAPs, IIHS, manufacturer specific tests)
• Development methods and tools:
  • Crash and occupant simulation, range of application and limitations.
  • Analysis of the performance of protection and restraint systems in side impact. Discussion of the boundary conditions, limits, conflicts and problems
  • Development strategy for an optimal restraint system for side impact
  • Target oriented use of CAE-simulation and hardware tests to develop optimal occupant load values
• Workshop with analysis of crash-data and discussion of the results

Joachim Peest
BMW Group

Joachim Peest studied Mechatronical Engineering at the Leibniz University Hannover, focussing on automation and control systems engineering. He has been working in passive safety since 2011 in different functions, starting as a test- and project-engineer, and later as a requirement- and process-developer. Since 2017, he has been working at BMW AG as a specialist in the side-crash-development of various vehicle projects.

Ralf Reuter
carhs.training gmbh

Ralf Reuter studied mechanical engineering and business administration at the technical universities of Darmstadt and Eindhoven. Since 1997 he has worked for carhs in various management positions. He deals with vehicle safety issues intensively, in particular with the latest developments in rules and regulations as well as consumer testing. As he is in charge of the SafetyWissen which has been published by carhs for many years, he keeps his knowledge up-to-date and profits from the inputs of carhs' trainer and expert network.

Date	Language	Price	Code
22 Oct - 23 Oct 2026	Deutsch	1450 EUR  (1750 EUR from 25 Sep 2026 )	4738
Venue
Alzenau (carhs.training gmbh, Siemensstraße 12, 63755 Alzenau)			» Register
Instructor
Joachim Peest (BMW Group) Ralf Reuter (carhs.training gmbh)
Seminar hours
Thursday	09:00 - 17:00
Friday	09:00 - 17:00

This course is available as an in-house seminar. The trainer comes to your site - you save travel expenses and travel time. Get an offer.

Your contact person

Dr. Dirk Ulrich
Phone.: 06023 - 96 40 - 66
E-Mail: dirk.ulrich@carhs.de

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