Give me a brake! Virtually test autonomous emergency braking systems

A majority of accidents are caused by late braking or braking with insufficient force. The driver might be distracted, the visibility poor, or another road user makes an unpredictable move. Year over…

The Sound of Silence…In The Skies?

In a bygone era, airlines urged passengers to “sit back and relax”, these days,  they are lucky if they can quickly get into their own cocoon as they settle into their seat and that often only h…

Valet parking: the first commercially available automated driving function

Recently, the local government changed the circulation plan of my home town. From now on, you drive into the city for only 1 reason: park your car.
 
Earlier, the majority of cars were drivi…

Durability testing automotive

1.2M kilometers. Can you picture the distance?

It is already 7 years since I joined the virtual durability engineering team. ‘Virtual’, as we work from diverse geographic locations and all have different backgrounds: industry specialists, te…

Used & Abused: The Life of an Airplane Seat.

Air Travel. What kind of thoughts comes to mind when you think of it? Luxury? Glamour? More often than not, these days it conjures up more stoic terms: endurance, perseverance. Well if that’s how you…

Efficient Rotor Dynamics for Multi-Stage Turbomachinery

The structural dynamics study of complex turbomachines, like jet engines or gas turbines, is a challenge today. The rotating parts of turbomachines are usually designed with different stages on …

Efficient and Accurate Broadband FEM-based Vibro-acoustics (Part 2) – External Acoustics

Challenges of vibro-acoustic FE modeling for external acoustics
 
Two weeks ago I discussed how in Simcenter 3D Acoustics the FEMAO methodology we developed for vibro-acoustic analysis al…

Efficient and Accurate Broadband FEM-based Vibro-acoustics (Part 1)

Challenges of vibro-acoustic FE modeling
 
CAE simulation fundamentally virtually simulates the behavior of continuous or “infinite”  objects subject to various physical forces into dis…

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%.