Call for presentation at the automotive CAE Grand Challenge 2015

This autumn carhs.training has determined the most critical challenges of automotive CAE - the Grand Challenges - through a survey among the CAE experts of the international automotive industry. These Grand Challenges form the topics of the sessions of the automotive CAE Grand Challenge 2015:

• CAE general: Material testing, modeling & data management for thick walled (e.g. casted) light weight alloys

• Crash: Failure models for point connections (multi-material design)

• Fatigue: Influence of manufacturing processes on durability

• NVH: Acoustic material parameters (testing, characterization)

• Occupant safety: Airbag simulation (OOP, side, multi-chamber): Unfolding, contacts, gas dynamics, FSI

• Sheet metal forming: Material models for metals including failure

• SpecialSession: Face the HPC challenge

In the individual sessions speakers from industry, research and software development explain the importance of the Challenge for the virtual vehicle development process and report on their efforts to solve the challenges.

If you want to contribute a presentation at the automotive CAE GrandChallenge please contact Dr. Dirk Ulrich - Phone +49 6023 9640-66 or mail

Winner of the iPad mini, drawn among the participants of the survey, is Mr. Hillenbrand of Continental Safety Engineering.

Read more: carhs.de/automotive-CAE-Grand-Challenge

ANSYS and NCSA achieve supercomputing milestone

ANSYS and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) have announced that they have scaled ANSYS® Fluent® to 36,000 compute cores – an industry first that could lead to greater efficiencies and increased innovation throughout product development processes. As companies increasingly seek to minimize development time and cost by using engineering simulation, they have been constrained by compute power. High-performance computing (HPC) has become a strategic core technology enabling enhanced insight into product performance and improving the productivity by considering more design variants. The combination of the Blue Waters supercomputer and the Cray Inc. engineering team, the NCSA Private Sector Program technical team, and recent enhancements to the Fluent code enables organizations to study the most complex and realistic simulation cases.

Read more: otp.investis.com/clients/us/ansys

Online survey on driving simulators - TU Berlin, asc (s and VDC create competence chart

The Technical University Berlin TUB, the Automotive Simulation Center Stuttgart asc(s and the Virtual Dimension Center Fellbach VDC want to identify status and trends of driving simulators through a survey. Increasing demands on product performance and growing cost pressures require transferring large tests series into the virtual world. Driving simulators offer a solution, but because of the growing complexity of these systems and heterogeneous hard- and software environments, this potential can often not be utilized. To enable an improved access for science and industry, the project partners want to create a competence chart for driving simulators. In this they are supported by the automotive OEMs represented in the networks of asc(s and VDC. Interested parties can participate in the online survery (in German). The results will be published in spring of 2015 at a conference in Stuttgart.

Read more: Online Survery (in German)

Autodesk announces $100 Million Investment Fund, the world’s first in 3D printing

Autodesk, Inc. has announced that it will invest up to $100 million in 3D printing companies over the next years. The Spark Investment Fund, which will be operated within Autodesk, is the first of its kind for the 3D printing industry and will invest in entrepreneurs, startups and researchers who push the boundaries of 3D printing technology and accelerate this new industrial revolution. Earlier this year, Autodesk announced Spark, an open and free software platform for 3D printing that will connect to any hardware and be materials agnostic. Autodesk invites the entire 3D printing community to collaborate, build and improve the platform. Companies and individuals developing groundbreaking hardware, software, materials, marketplaces and maker spaces are encouraged to apply to participate in the Spark Investment Fund’s investment portfolio. In addition to the financial investment, Spark Investment Fund recipients will become part of the Spark partner program and have access to marketing and other services.

Read more: autodesk.com/news

ORECA Technology designs Le Mans prototype car in 363 days with STAR-CCM+

CD-adapco™ has been pivotal in the design of the REBELLION R-One LM P1-L car. In 2013, REBELLION entered a partnership with ORECA Technology to design and build the REBELLION R-One. In just under one year, 363 days to be exact, ORECA Technology built this state-of-the-art race car which was completely designed from scratch using CAE tools, including STAR-CCM+. ORECA Technology has been using STAR-CCM+ to simulate all aspects of the car, including aerodynamic, hydrodynamic and thermal management. Compared to previous ORECA race car designs, the REBELLION R-One car has been built from a completely clean slate. The team adopted a ‘no limits’ design philosophy, in which every decision was made with the aim of improving performance.

Image: CD-adapco

Read more: cd-adapco.com/pr

Further development of a leaf spring model by Magna Engineering Center Steyr

Leaf springs, available in different versions, are still one of the most commonly used suspension elements in vehicles. Total vehicle models are mainly used at Magna for driving dynamics and comfort simulations as well as for load determination for fatigue analysis. These simulations are designed to represent the kinematic and dynamic behavior of the leaf spring as accurately as possible and at the same time taking little computing time. Despite of increasing computer performance, computationally optimized models have to be used, especially in optimization processes. For methodological validation, the leaf spring model was verified through measurements.

Image: Magna Steyr

Read more: ecs.steyr.com/Newsletter

Earlybird invests in SimScale: CAE simulation in the web browser

Earlybird Venture Capital, High-Tech Gründerfonds and Bayern Kapital invest together with a consortium of business angels in SimScale GmbH. SimScale develops and markets a new and completely web-based platform for engineering simulations. Computer simulations allow virtual testing of technical products without prototyping, leading to faster and more cost-effective product development and better products are made possible. The SimScale platform works completely web-based, so an internet connection and a modern browser are sufficient to perform sophisticated 3D simulations in the areas of structural mechanics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics and acoustics.

Image: Earlybird & SimScale

Read more: simscale.de/Earlybird

Download the update of the carhs.training SafetyWissen App now!

The latest update of the SafetyWissen App (version 1.6) is available for free download since December 11, 2014. An improved search function allows filtering search results by authors and up-to-dateness. Now it is also possible to set up a proxy server to download documents. On top to these technical innovations numerous new or changed regulations and consumer protection test protocols, overviews and summaries have been integrated. For CAE experts, it is particularly attractive that simulation models of crash test dummies have been added.

Read more: carhs.com/app

Seminars for CAE experts of automotive industry in carhs.training

In 2015, we again offer a wide range of interesting seminars for analysis engineers of the automotive industry (The below seminars are held in German language!). .

• 10 March 2015 Design and Simulation of Vehicle Vibration; Dr.-Ing. Olaf Kolk, BMW Group
  

• 11 and 12 March 2015 Crashworthy Car Body Design - Design, Simulation, Optimization; Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Schumacher, University of Wuppertal

• 18. + 19. März 2015 Design of Composite Structures; Dr. Roland Hinterhölzl, Chair for carbon composites at the Technical University Munich

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

Read more: carhs.de/training

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.

Read more: carhs.de/inhouse