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The ITM Group Engineering Department uses advanced tools as finite element methods for static structural analyses of undercarriages, side frames or undercarriage components, as track chain, rollers and tension devices. In order to ...

This paper presents a method to analyse the door endurance test of commercial vehicles. The door endurance test simulates the opening and closing activities of the customers. To simulate this durability of the door a combination ...

The importance of estimating discretization error has been sadly neglected in the computational solid mechanics community. Quite the opposite is true in the computational fluid dynamics community where discretization error estimation ...

This talk gives an overview of applying very fine models in dummy model development. It includes topics about the current model size, outline and applications of fine models as well as the difficulties with fine models.

In many load cases models from third parties are used during vehicle development. Since many years the authors work in development on different dummy models. The projects are in cooperation with organizations of the German automotive ...

As one of the important issues in correlation of crash analysis, we know that the press-forming effect has large influence for the result of the analysis. Some tries and studies were carried out to assume the forming result to the ...

Increasing crashworthiness requirements, together with the need of substantial weight reduction, are pushing the use of high strength steel grades in automotive car body structures. For being able to provide a reliable prediction of ...

With increasing requirements on crashworthiness and weight reduction of car body structures, the use of high strength steels has become widespread in modern cars. In contrast to conventional steels, these higher strength steels often ...