Engineering fun at Automotive Testing Expo Europe 2018

We’re getting ready for Automotive Testing Expo Europe 2018… and this year is going to be a blast! We’ve built, literally built, a new demo car for the purpose of the show and we’re giving life to it…

Airbus: priceless payloads ready for space launch

Read how Airbus relies on Simcenter for satellite testing campaigns and how they achieve remarkable time-saving process improvements before space launch.

MLMM: the new modal parameter estimator

Read about the MLMM method, a solver that iteratively identifies the parameters of a modal model, increasing the accuracy of the modal model by up to 15%.

The Psychology of NVH

Just over a fortnight ago, I was at the 88 th Geneva International Motor Show.
Upon entering hall 2, which is elevated so you have a nice view over halls 3, 4 and 5, I couldn’t help but notice the…

The perfect cure for the winter blues…

Behind the scenes at Princess Yachts in Plymouth, UK
 
While the winter wind continues to whip outside my office window, I find myself dreaming of balmier times: like this August, when we go…

Closing the Loop between As-Designed and As-Manufactured Composites

Over the last 30 years the usage of fiber-reinforced plastics (FRP) composites have grown due to their lightweight properties and structural performance. Still, there remain significan…

Excellence is not an act, but a habit, as is the NVH of electric vehicles

More than 2300 years ago, Aristotle said: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” This being said, one must be thoughtful in selecting habits. When following est…

Predicting wheel loads by combining test and simulation

Predicting wheel loads by combining test and simulation

Enrico Risaliti explains his scientific work on developing a new model-based virtual sensing method combining test and simulation.

Outstanding system and full vehicle NVH? It is all about integration!

Russian babushka dolls are designed to fit inside one another, revealing each time a smaller figure inside. Auto manufacturers and suppliers also design “objects-within-objects”. Like the matriarch d…