ESI Unleashes Virtual Performance Solution Version 2016
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ESI Unleashes Virtual Performance Solution
Version 2016
New Enhancements to Answer
Lightweighting and Environmental Challenges
Paris, France - November 2, 2016 - ESI Group, leading innovator in Virtual
Prototyping software and services for manufacturing industries, announces the
latest release of Virtual Performance Solution (VPS). ESI's flagship software is
a unique solution allowing manufacturers to face emerging design challenges -
including those related to lightweight and green vehicles - while avoiding over-
engineering. It enables design and simulation engineers to test rapidly their
innovations on virtual prototypes, rather than real ones, and to evaluate the
impact of real driving conditions. VPS also offers a distinctive approach,
allowing the virtual testing of product performance across multiple domains,
using a single core model. With this latest release of ESI Virtual Performance
Solution, manufacturers can predict in a more efficient way the impact of use of
composite and advanced lightweight materials on product performance, and
simulate the vibration-induced noise.
As automotive OEMs strive to develop lightweight vehicles, they continuously
face challenges related to the introduction of new materials, new grades, and
new processes. The selection of advanced lightweight materials, composite
materials, ultra-high strength steels or aluminums can hardly be based on
existing know-how. Rather, today's innovative multi-material strategies require
a precise understanding, and an early prediction, of the as assembled behavior.
Any level of uncertainty may lead to conservative decisions and costly over-
engineering.
Virtual Performance Solution 2016 offers new functionalities to help OEMs tackle
challenges related to the introduction of new materials, and thereby enables
them to design the next generation of lightweight vehicles. First, thanks to new
dynamic re-meshing capabilities, the accuracy of rupture propagation after an
impact is now better captured; important as engineers investigate in detail what
happens in the crash rupture area when using new materials and novel assembly
methods.
Image: New dynamic remeshing capabilities during a bumper impact in ESI
Virtual Performance Solution 2016.
Second, Virtual Performance Solution 2016 includes new advanced composite crash
and strength models that enable prediction of the rupture behavior of composite
parts and their capability to absorb energy during a crash. In this new version,
the accuracy of composite structural performance prediction is importantly
increased by taking into account manufacturing effects, such as fiber
orientation, that are inherited from the composite forming process. (For more
information on this topic please see our latest technical paper, presented at
the 17th European Conference on Composite Materials (ECCM).)
Another important challenge for car makers is meeting the new environmental
regulations aimed at reducing the level of noise generated by cars. The European
Commission recently introduced stringent new noise limitations, which will
become applicable in 2026. In the case of electric and hybrid vehicles, which
are exceedingly quiet, legislators are considering adding noise so as to reduce
the risk of collision with pedestrians.
To solve noise related problematics in an effective way, Virtual Performance
Solution 2016 offers extended capabilities for Noise, Vibration & Harshness
(NVH) and now enables the prediction of noise radiation, combining the Finite
Element Method for the structure and the Boundary Element Method for the outside
of the car. The same single-core model is used for the complete vehicle, which
facilitates setting the correct pre-loading conditions; mandatory to high
quality prediction of structural responses. To achieve greater accuracy, the
single-core model also integrates frequency dependency and manufacturing
history, even for very innovative and advanced materials and production
processes. The use of this single-core model for all engineering teams delivers
a drastic reduction of development cycles and costs.
With this single core model, engineers can not only perform regulatory crash and
NVH tests, they can also run virtual tests to evaluate real driving conditions.
Thanks to VPS's water flow module, they can detect potential leakages and assess
how rain will affect driving visibility. Find out more about water management
with VPS.
For more information about ESI Virtual Performance Solution, please visit
www.esi-group.com/VPS
Join ESI's customer portal myESI to get continuously updated product
information, tips & tricks, view the online training schedule and access
selected software downloads: https://myesi.esi-group.com
For more ESI news, visit: www.esi-group.com/press
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About ESI Group
ESI Group is a leading innovator in Virtual Prototyping software and services.
Specialist in material physics, ESI has developed a unique proficiency in
helping industrial manufacturers replace physical prototypes by virtually
replicating the fabrication, assembly and testing of products in different
environments. Today, coupled with Virtual Reality, animated by systems models,
and benefiting from data analytics, Virtual Prototyping becomes immersive and
interactive: ESI's clients can bring their products to life, ensuring reliable
performance, serviceability and maintainability. ESI solutions help world-
leading OEM's and innovative companies make sure that their products will pass
certification tests - before any physical prototype is built - and that new
products are competitive in their market space. Virtual Prototyping addresses
the emerging need for products to be smart and autonomous and supports
industrial manufacturers in their digital transformation.
Today, ESI's customer base spans nearly every industry sector. The company
employs about 1100 high-level specialists worldwide to address the needs of
customers in more than 40 countries. For more information, please visit www.esi-
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Datum: 02.11.2016 - 08:02 Uhr
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