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Coupled Powertrain and Vehicle Analysis

Jonathan Zeman — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 17:00:39 +0000

Today's vehicle and powertrain engineers face increasing challenges to meet fuel economy and drive quality targets, while at the same time keep vehicle cost reasonable. Many of the new engine technologies designed to improve fuel economy create difficulties for the noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) engineer, whose job it is to assure a certain level of comfort for the occupants.

Should I Invest in Simulation Process Data Management (SPDM)?

Product Marketing — Fri, 20 May 2016 17:00:02 +0000

Should I Invest in Simulation Process Data Management (SPDM)? Today, simulation process and data management systems (SPDM) are being used by many manufacturing companies. SPDM significantly contributes to their efforts to maintain competitive advantage in the market. With SPDM, companies are able to increase productivity, improve their quality with fewer errors and gain a ...

Weight Reduction of an Engine Mount

Product Marketing — Thu, 19 May 2016 20:00:05 +0000

Trelleborg is a global automotive supplier that offers sealing, damping, and protection solutions to the automotive industry. To reach their goal of complying with CO2 regulation, Trelleborg uses material modeling and simulation software. Challenge To comply with CO2 regulations (2015: 130g 2020: 95g) To reduce the average weight of a car by 200 kg ...

How to Use Simulation Process and Data Management (SPDM) with Your System Dynamics Workflow

Product Marketing — Thu, 19 May 2016 17:00:22 +0000

How to Use Simulation Process and Data Management (SPDM) with Your System Dynamics Workflow Over the past 15 years simulation process and data management (SPDM) systems have become more advanced alongside the increasing need for complex testing and simulations. SPDM now gives companies the ability to have more effective processes, more certain data outputs ...

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

Product Marketing — Tue, 17 May 2016 17:01:04 +0000

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 ...

Use of Multidiscipline Solutions to Improve Automotive Noise, Vibration and Harshness

Product Marketing — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 16:19:44 +0000

Simulation software is being used extensively around the world due to their accuracy and cost-effectiveness. Instead of using different simulation tools for every different type of testing process, engineers can use multidiscipline tools to better improve NVH (noise, vibration, harshness). MD solution tools can be used for many different areas of testing, including: Analysis of ...

Reducing Automotive Engine Noise with Multidiscipline Simulation

Product Marketing — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 18:15:27 +0000

While companies can solve automotive engine noise problems by using engine mounts to stop vibration and the firewall to stop airborne noise, these solutions are not sustainable if one wishes to maintain quality. Therefore, car manufacturers taking advantage of finite element analysis (FEA) software to better understand noise and vibration. FEA can be used to ...

Acoustic Simulation for Spacecraft Launch

Product Marketing — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 18:26:12 +0000

Launching a rocket into the sky is not an easy thing. There are several thousands of unimaginably complex engineering processes occurring in the background, the competition is getting tougher every day, and companies frequently only have one chance to get the launch sequence right. So what is hindering efforts to launch more powerful rockets in ...

Tuning Acoustic Quality of Audio Devices with Simulation

Product Marketing — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 17:58:00 +0000

When designing an audio device, the most important thing for an engineer to consider is the quality of the sound. Quality is what makes the device valuable and differentiates it from competitors. Audio device manufacturing companies experience extremely high product development costs due to repetitive and expensive physical testing. In addition to the need ...

Acoustic Simulation Helps Reduce Time to Qualify for New Noise Standard from 1 Year to 3 Months

Product Marketing — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 23:06:02 +0000

Noise is a big problem in commercial and agricultural vehicles all around the world. While it is important for drivers to hear the sound of an engine, noise that is too loud can be uncomfortable. Government regulations on commercial and agricultural vehicles are heavy and also change from one country to another. For example, while ...