Order your free copy of the automotive CAE Companion 2014/2015

Just in time for this year's "automotive CAE Grand Challenge" our "automotive CAE Companion 2014/2015" has been released. On 96 pages the CAE Companion 2014/2015 provides information on the conferences and training seminars of carhs.training in CAE and related areas. In particular, our new seminars on the use of simulation in vehicle homologation, model-based head injury criteria and stochastics and robust design in vehicle development should find great interest. The CAE knowledge pages have been extended with new and interesting contributions. The CAE Companion 2014/2015 can be ordered at the following link

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Most comprehensive CAE Software offer in the academic environment - Free Student Edition of Altair HyperWorks®

Altair recently released the HyperWorks 12.0 Student Edition, making it the most comprehensive computer-aided engineering (CAE) suite available to aspiring structural and mechanical engineers. The software is free, and extensive learning resources designed especially for students may be found on the Altair Academic Training Center. In addition, Altair provides students on-demand interactive support through the moderated Academic Support Forum. The addition of solidThinking Inspire for intuitive concept generation is an enabler for simulation-based design that incorporates topology optimization, while solidThinking Evolve offers classic industrial design sketching and modeling functionality for the exploration of design alternatives.

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Automotive CAE Grand Challenge 2014 a great success!

On 15 an 16 April the 6th Automotive CAE Grand Challenge was held in Hanau (near Frankfurt), Germany. In 7 sessions 40 speakers from industry, research and software development reported on the current challenges of automotive CAE and their efforts to overcome them. In the lectures and in parallel workshops 159 participants from 14 countries and 4 continents received comprehensive information on the progress in automotive CAE. In addition, participants had the opportunity to gather valuable information about hardware, software, and related services for automotive CAE in the accompanying exhibition with 26 well-known companies from the world of CAE. Participants, speakers, exhibitors and sponsors were very pleased with the conference.

The 7th automotive CAE Grand Challenge will take place on 31 March and 1 April 2015. If you are interested in the conference, please note the date and follow our announcements.

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Incorporation of ADINA Germany

ADINA is a leading finite element program for the analysis of nonlinear structural, fluid-structure interaction (FSI) and multi-physical problems. The company ADINA R & D, Inc. was founded in 1986 by Prof. Dr. Klaus Jürgen Bathe and his colleagues in the U.S. Since then the company pursued the goal to continually develop ADINA. Today ADINA is used all around the world. Parts of the ADINA program are used in NX Nastran (Solution 601/701), which is offered by Siemens. Currently, a German subsidiary of the company ADINA R & D is established to strengthen the diffusion of ADINA in Germany and to support the user on site.

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DatapointLabs expands composite testing

With the increased use of high-strength, low-weight composite materials in structural design, DatapointLabs has seen an increase in demand for physical properties of these materials. For many years DatapointLabs has offered testing to capture rate sensitivity of polymeric and metallic materials for use in CAE simulation. Now they are extending their offering to composite materials, incorporating tensile, flexural and shear deformations. Composites present a significant simulation challenge because of their non-isotropic nature, so that even simple stiffness predictions require a complex material model. Composites testing has now been extended into the dynamic arena with high strain-rate testing capability up to 100/s. Further developments are under way to provide even more material tests for composite materials, as well as to implement more composite material models for supported structural CAE platforms.

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VI-DriveSim static to support Citroën racing’s drivers training for Touring Car Championship

VI-grade, the leading provider of best-in-class software products and services for advanced applications in the field of system-level simulation, announced that Citroën Racing has selected driving simulation technology from VI-grade to implement a driving simulator for driver training during the 2014 WTCC season. Some months ago, Citroën Racing announced the decision to join the 2014 WTCC with 4 drivers: The four-time WTCC winner Yvan Muller, the nine-time WRC champion Sébastien Loeb and F1 test driver Jose Maria Lopez for the complete season and Chinese Ma Qing Hua for five rounds. As a part of this decision, and being entirely new in the discipline, the team identified the importance of having a driving simulator in order to support its drivers in learning new tracks. The static simulator, entirely implemented by VI-grade, will be installed prior the beginning of the championship at Citroën Racing premises in Versailles and used for the preparation of the FIA World Touring Car Championship.

Image: Citroën Racing

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HBM releases version 10 of nCode DesignLife and GlyphWorks including new high-quality fatigue material data base

The new versions of HBM’s software for the investigation of fatigue offer a variety of improvements. The most important innovation may be the newly introduced durability material database. This database provides fatigue properties for commonly used steels and aluminum alloys. All data in the database have been derived from tests performed in the ISO 9001 certified Advanced Materials Characterization & Test Facility operated by HBM-nCode. It can be technically challenging to simulate fatigue failure, but it's impossible to get accurate fatigue life calculations without specific and reliable materials data. Therefore the new materials database from nCode provides reliable, high-quality fatigue parameters and helps avoiding costly material tests. The first release of the database includes 72 materials and is available to customers exclusively through the nCode licensing. nCode plans to add 20 to 30 materials to the database annually.

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Seminars for CAE experts of automotive industry in carhs.training

In 2014, we again offer a wide range of interesting seminars for analysis engineers of the automotive industry. Below you will find our offer of seminars in English Language for the coming months

• 7. - 8. July 2014 "Material Models of Plastics and Foams for Crash Simulation" - Prof. Dr-Ing. Stefan Kolling, Technical University of Applied Sciences Mittelhessen


• 9. July 2014 "Material Models of Metals for Crash Simulation" - Prof. Dr.-Ing. Helmut Gese, MATFEM


• 10. July 2014 "Material Models of Composites for Crash Simulation" - Prof. Dr. Anthony Pickett, ESI Engineering System International GmbH
  

• 11. July 2014 "Simulation of Automotive Components from Short-Fibre Reinforced Plastics" - Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Stommel, Technical Univeristy Dortmund
  

• 14. - 15. July 2014 "Car Body Design for Analysis Engineers" - Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Schumacher, University Wuppertal
  

For more information on the contents of the seminars and the speakers, please visit our website via the links provided.

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carhs.training in-house Seminars: The most efficient method of knowledge transfer

If it is your job to qualify several members of staff in a certain field, our in-house seminars and workshops provide the most efficient method. We will deliver the course onsite. You will save traveling time and costs. Moreover, you will benefit from considerable cost advantages through our attractive pricing model for in-house seminars. Choose the topics you need from the selection provided in our SafetyCompanion or on our web site and ask for a proposal. Together with you, we can adapt the seminar contents to your individual requirements. Contact Dr. Dirk Ulrich directly via e-mail.

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