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Each day many drivers and passengers die due to car accidents. The risk of death is higher or lower depending on the car and even further on the car model. Vehicle models differ widely in many ways; with respect to safety ranking ...

In the last years the demand on weight reduction in the automotive industry has led to a hype in requests for various composite applications. Due to the complexity of those usually highly anisotropic materials virtual product ...

The increasing computing power of GPUs can be used to improve the performance of CAE systems.[1]. Within LS-DYNA an improved direct equation solver can be used, which accelerates the performance of implicit applications by use of a ...

With the increased use of fiber-reinforced plastic composites in the automotive industy, the demands on the accuracy of the simulation resulb and their informative value are constantly rising. Since the mechanical properties of these ...

Die Kernkompetenz der 4a manufacturing GmbH liegt in der Entwicklung sowie Herstellung von Mehrschichtverbunden (Sandwich), die insbesondere im Leichtbau eingesetzt werden. Mit dem Verbundmaterial "Cimera" können aufgrund des ...

Zunehmende Ressourcenknappheit fossiler Energieträger, politische Restriktionen hinsichtlich der CO2-Emissionen sowie eine ansteigende Urbanisierung beeinflussen die zukünftigen Mobilitätsanforderungen [1]. Eine Möglichkeit, um diesen ...

Cellular structures have an attractive combination of mechanical properties and are increasingly used in modern engineering applications. Consequently, the research of their behaviour under quasi-static and dynamic loading is valuable ...