Balancing vehicle noise and vibration with e-efficiency for e-powertrains – a “multitasking challenge”

Electric vehicle e-powertrain development is a balancing act between efficiency, noise and vibration (NVH), cost, mass, and reliability. While efficiency directly influences vehicle range, NVH issues remain a major source of development challenges and budget overruns. This blog explores how engineers can assess e-efficiency and NVH simultaneously using a single synchronized measurement setup. By combining electrical, mechanical, acoustic, and vibration data in one test campaign, teams can directly correlate efficiency gains with NVH impacts, identify critical noise sources, and make faster, better-informed design decisions.

From Apollo to Artemis: How the digital twin is accelerating lunar rover development

Learn how aerospace engineers validate lunar rover designs using Simcenter digital twin simulation. Integrated thermal, structural, and thermo-mechanical analysis reduces hardware risk, accelerates iteration, and enables mission-critical design decisions before physical testing … essential for Artemis program success.

Virtual Integrated Aircraft: Designing cryogenic hydrogen storage through the digital thread

As the aerospace industry explores hydrogen-powered flight, one challenge quickly rises to the top: where do you store liquid hydrogen…

Effective methods to simulate radiation in turbomachinery

Designing modern gas turbines is a balancing act between physics and performance. As temperatures soar, even small thermal miscalculations can…

The real threat to next‑generation aircraft programs isn’t weight

How a small change can reshape an aircraft program 243 kilograms isn’t a particularly large number on an aircraft weighing…

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Python in the loop: AI-driven simulation and validation for autonomous systems – Simcenter Prescan 2606 

What’s new ADAS and autonomous system development increasingly relies on Python, machine learning frameworks, and large volumes of sensor data. Yet…

What’s new and exciting in Simcenter Nastran 2606 and Simcenter Optistruct 2026.1 releases

What if your solver stopped making you choose between fidelity, speed and focus? Engineering teams are under pressure from every…

A universal testing machine subjects a metal specimen to controlled uniaxial tension - generating the raw stress-strain data that Simcenter Material Modeler transforms into calibrated, solver-ready material cards

Accurate material model calibration for CAE: Introducing Simcenter Material Modeler 2026.0

Discover how your material modeling workflow transforms – from test data to simulation-ready material cards, faster and accurately with Simcenter Material Modeler

Operational Deflection Shapes: From frequency peaks to understanding structural motion

Discover how Operational Deflection Shapes (ODS) reveal real-world structural motion, helping engineers diagnose NVH issues, identify vibration sources, and accelerate troubleshooting with Simcenter Testlab.