Safety

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Simulate & Analyze Vehicle Impact

ComprehensiveCrash Analysis

AutomationSet-up & manage vehicle safety simulations.

FMVSS, ECE and Insurance Institute impact & occupant safety test conditions can be implemented quickly and easily using the Safety plug-in. It offers an extensive crash tool library, which includes built-in dummy models, barriers and impactors. The user can position fe dummy models, add seat belts and evaluate effects.

Safety

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VPGThe Safety Module delivers a set of tools that speed the modeling of vehicle impact analyses including crash tools, dummy and barrier libraries and offers guidance for FMVSS, ECE and Insurance Institute test scenarios.

The Safety module streamlines the model development process. It reduces the amount of time and effort required to create finite element models and it fosters consistency across modeling and analysis tasks.

Using Safety, many common impact & occupant safety test conditions can be modeled quickly and easily, providing highly accurate, informative results. It offers an extensive crash tool library, which includes built-in dummy models, barriers and impactors. It allows engineers to position finite element dummy models, add seat belts and evaluate effects such as dummy and seat interactions.

An airbag folder features a complete toolset for typical fold patterns. It allows tucking, rolling and folding. Results can be saved and bag re-folded with the same pattern.

Dummy Positioning, Seat Belt Modeling & Seat Foam Morphing

Crash Tool Library Dummy ModelsSID and EUROSID, Hybrid II, Hybrid III, FAA Hybrid III, LSTC/NCAC BarriersFMVSS/ECE side impact barrier, 0-degree front rigid barrier, 30-degree rigid front barrier, front offset deformable barrier, rear impact barrier Impactors, rams, pendulums, head forms

Vehicle Safety Tests FMVSS regulationsside door intrusion, US dynamic, rigid wall, 0 degree/30 degree, roof crush resistance, flat rigid wall rear impact, 70% overlap deformable barrier rear impact ECE regulationsdeformable 40% offset, frontal impact, rear impact, euro dynamic side impact, R66 bus rollover Insurance/consumer requirements Front rigid pole impact, side pole impact IIHS 40% offset deformable barrier front crash Bumper impact FMVR581flat, offset, pendulum Roll-over scenario simulations High ditch Ramp SAEJ2114 Curb tripping Soil Tripping FMVSSFree motion head impact, seatbelt anchorage, child restraints anchorage system, sled test occupant simulation, knee bolster simulation, steering control system ECEluggage intrusion, steering control system

Occupant Modeling Dummy Positioning Seatbelt Routing Seat Foam Deformation

Seat Cushion Foam Modeling

Structure

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Structural Mechanical System Analysis

Analyze Mechanical

Systems Accurately

Dynamic, non-linear analysis of tire models, suspension & road surfaces.

With the VPG Structure plug-in, the user can analyze tire models, suspension models & road surfaces. The plug-in offers a dynamic non-linear analysis approach, using real-time boundary conditions consistent with common test environments.

Structure

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Road Surface Models

Digitized from MGA proving ground roads Any 3-D data can be used to generate road surfaces

Tire Models

3-D FEA models including the tire air pressure Frictional Contact interface with road Validated versus test data

Vehicle Dynamics

Road Load Generation Use of simplified models for event-based loads Rigid and flexible members Component or sub-system studies

Durability / Fatigue Assessment

Full system and component assessment Time-domain transient stress and strain prediction eta/VPG fatigue analysis tool included Allows multiple material assignments Provides a way to create user defined materials Users can output files useful in other fatigue codes Simulation of durability critical proving ground events Calculate material damage of each event Calculate the occurrence cycles Accumulate damages per cycle to predict fatigue life.

Noise, Vibration & Harshness

Simulate dynamic rough road events including cobbles, potholes and ditches Simulate vehicle limit handling events including rollover and emergency lane changes

Road Stress Analysis

Drop, Shock & Vibration

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Simulate Common Test Conditions

Upgrade R&Dcapability Shorten the product

design cycle, predict design defects, optimize material and shape.

Whether you are currently using physical testing,or already use CAE tools to evaluate your designs, Inventiums Drop Test plug-in helps companies upgrade research and development capabilities. Users can shorten the product design cycle, reduce experimentation time and costs, predict potential design defects, as well as optimize product material and shape.

Drop, Shock & Vibration

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VPGThe Inventium Drop Test plug-in enables engineers to quickly develop simulations of their designs undergoing the abuse of everyday use, and the extremes of the product lifetime. The interface is specifically designed to quickly set-up and execute simulations for these demanding tests.

Whether you are currently using physical testing,or already use CAE tools to evaluate your designs, this plug-in helps companies upgrade research and development capabilities. Users can shorten the product design cycle, reduce experimentation time and costs, predict potential design defects, as well as optimize product material and shape.

The plug-in provides a user environment that is tailored to the engineer performing shock and vibration testing and analysis. Parameters are defined through a special interface that allows the user to easily input the testing parameters and even create a series of simulations from a range of drop heights or impact angles with a single command.

This software tool includes a complete material library which includes steel, aluminum, plastic, PCB and foam. Materials can also be added to the database to meet the specific requirements

The DTM can be used to simulate common drop test conditions including:

Drop Tests Pressure /Indentation Tests Vibration / Shaker Table Tests Shock and Extreme Environment Tests

The module is ideal for the development of: Electronics

Mobile Phones Laptops Flat Panel Televisions Computer Equipment

Shipping Containers Consumer Packaging Aerospace Structures Fuselage Crash Evaluations Aerospace Seating

Review Multiple Simulation Results Simultaneously

In-depth Review of Results

Fluid-structure Interaction

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Analyze Fluid & Structural Behaviors

Model blasts &complex system

behaviorsEasily set-up modelswith multiple fluid zones & variable charge shapes

Inventiums Fluid-Structure Interaction Modeling plug-in includes a complete element and material library to create structural models, which interact realistically with fluid models. Inventium provides easy to use tools to efficiently define these parameters and provides a template-based interface for modeling fluids.

Fluid-structure Interaction

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VPGInventiums FSI tools allow the user to create advanced fluid-structure interaction simulations, automatically creating ALE mesh zones and explosive pressure sources. For use with the finite element software LS-DYNA, the user can quickly set up LS-DYNA models with multiple fluid zones and variable charge shapes using a simple parametric model definition.

The system includes a complete element and material library to create structural models, which interact realistically with fluid models. Inventium provides easy to use tools to efficiently define these parameters, as well as the fluid-structure interactions.

FSI Simulations require special tools to aid in the visualization of the data. Inventium provides an extensive set of tools that engineers can use to view the simulation results, assess both the fluid and structure behaviors and plot the simulation results. Fluid motion and pressure visualizations and structural deformation and stress visualizations provide the information necessary to interpret the simulation results. Curves of various responses can be created directly from the simulation data.

Inventium provides these tools in a customizable environment which can display multiple models and results in a single instance of the software, allowing the user to query and compare several simulation results simultaneously.

Applications Automotive

Shock absorbers Hydraulic engine mounts Valves, pumps, compressors Tire hydroplaning Airbag deployment Exhaust systems Car door seals Shock Tube Modeling

Military / Defense Mine Blast Vehicle Blast Countermeasure Weapon Design Blast-Resistant Structure Design Soldier Protective Devices

Fluid containers Oil tanks subject to earthquake Fuel tank sloshing

Biomechanics Artificial lung Drug delivery Ventricular assist devices Aneurysms Bioreactors

Aeroelasticity Flutter of airplane wings

Turbomachinery Impellers Gas & Wind turbines

Nuclear power plants Control rod drop Blow down experiment

Wind engineering Wind effects on tall buildings Cable stayed bridges

Compressors, Pumps & Pipe Systems Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems Other applications

Journal bearing Modeling tsunamis Modeling parachute deployment Printers, copy machines Submerged structures Loud speakers, hearing aids Hydro-fracture Metal hydro-forming

Airbag Simulation

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