Category - Actran

3
Jul

New Regulations for Electric Vehicles

This week marked an important EU mandate for electric vehicles, requiring all new electric vehicles to emit a noise at low speeds. Read how Actran is helping OEMs, such as Hyundai, by optimizing APAS system design. At moderate to high speeds, the only external noises typically generated by electric vehicles are caused by wind resistance …

21
Feb

Formula 1 Unveils Championship Contending Race Cars

Throughout this week, Formula 1 began unveiling its championship contending race cars with innovators such as Ferrari, Renault, Mercedes, and McLaren. In automobile racing, winning is inextricably linked in some fashion to speed – the speed of the vehicle, but even more importantly, the speed of technology deployment. Technology that delivers a rapid, first-time-right design. Unified in a perpetual …

7
Dec

Performance, Aero-Acoustic Innovation, and Pre-Processing Efficiency Redefined

Free Field Technologies (FFT), an MSC Software company, announced today the release of Actran 18. The new release offers new capabilities for achieving superior performance in acoustic, vibro-acoustic, and aero-acoustic simulations. Driven by ever increasing acoustic performance expectations, industry requirements call for highly performant acoustic simulation solutions that can be easily deployed in any environment. Actran 18 …

20
May

Simulation Accurately Predicts Noise Generated by Automotive Side Mirrors

An acoustic engineer is someone whose job is never done. Acoustic engineers in the automotive industry have achieved tremendous progress in recent years in making vehicle interiors quieter and more comfortable by reducing powertrain and road/tire noise. But as these major noise sources are reduced, other noises that were previously muffled have become much more …

17
May

Adams Car Integration with Simulation Process and Data Management (SPDM)

To avoid iterative tests and multiple design changes to physical prototypes, engineers today use simulation software. Adams Car is a system dynamics solution that allows car manufacturers to build and test functional virtual prototypes of the complete vehicle under various road conditions and design changes. Adams Car’s architecture is based on databases of CDBs, which …

13
May

Finding the Solution to a Noise Problem

A nighttime noise complaint was issued from the residential area near one of Wärtsiläs main large 4-stroke medium speed engine factories located in downtown Vaasa.  The facility produces about 500 engines per year and every engine is subjected to a test run. An investigation found that the likely source of the intolerable noise was from the exhaust from an engine 1000 hour endurance test. Although they discovered the source of the noise, they were unable to solve the noise problem completely. 

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