{"id":2055,"date":"2023-02-02T15:49:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T07:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caefea.com\/?p=2055"},"modified":"2025-10-21T19:19:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T11:19:01","slug":"automotive-industry-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caefea.com\/en\/automotive-industry-applications.html","title":{"rendered":"CAE Simulation Applications in the Automotive Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The phrase \u201cdesign-build-test\u201d has been used to accurately describe the tradition-al automotive development cycle. In recent years, however, the industry has set a new goal of 1-year from concept to reality. With such an aggressive target in mind, design-build-test approach has become increasingly impractical.
CAEFEA provides a solution to this problem with LS-DYNA, which can be used to replace a significant portion of physical testing with virtual testing. The bottom line is that firms can minimize rebuilding and retesting and ultimately save on de-velopment time and cost.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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CAEFEA is already being used for a wide variety of automotive-related simulations. Some of the most common analysis types include:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u2022 IIHS Offset Frontal Impact<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u2022 IIHS Side Impact<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u2022 IIHS Low Speed Bumper Impact<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u2022 FMVSS208 Frontal Impact<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u2022 FMVSS214 Static & Dynamic Side Impact<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u2022 FMVSS301 Rear Impact & Fuel Integrity<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u2022 FMVSS216 Roof Crush<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u2022 FMVSS225 Child Restraint Anchorage<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u2022 FMVSS201 Head Impact<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u2022 FMVSS207\/210 Seatbelt Anchorage<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u2022 Gravity Loading<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u2022 Elastic Recovery After Dynamic Impact<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Such analyses encompass a wide variety of complex physical phenomena, and CAEFEA is equipped with vast array of features and capabilities to replicate these events. These include:
\u2022 An extensive library of materials (more than any other code) capable of ac-curately modeling steel, aluminum, plastics, fabric, glass, rubber, foam, honeycomb, and many others under both static and high-speed dynamic conditions. Many of these material models also capture viscous, rate-de-pendent, and hyperelastic behavior, and there is a wide variety of both brittle and ductile failure options available.
\u2022 An extensive selection of accurate and very general contact algorithms. These include surface-to-surface contacts, eroding contacts, tied interfaces, and many more.
\u2022 An extensive selection of airbag modeling tools. Available methods include Control Volume, ALE, and CPM.
\u2022 An extensive selection of seat belt related features, including sliprings, re-tractors, pre-tensioners, and sensors.
\u2022 An extensive selection of joining methods. These include rigid connections, bolts, and spotwelds. Delamination of boded structures can also be mod-eled.
\u2022 Multi-physics capabilities to model things like fluid-structure interaction in fuel tanks.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The phrase \u201cdesign-build-test\u201d has been used to accurately describe the tradition-al automotive development cycle. In recent years, however, the industry has set a new goal of 1-year from concept to reality. With such an aggressive target in mind, design-build-test approach has become increasingly impractical.CAEFEA provides a solution to this problem with LS-DYNA, which can be used to replace a significant portion of physical testing with virtual testing. The bottom line is that firms can minimize rebuilding and retesting and ultimately save on de-velopment time and cost. CAEFEA is already being used for a wide variety of automotive-related simulations. Some of the most common analysis types include: \u2022 IIHS Offset Frontal Impact \u2022 IIHS Side Impact \u2022 IIHS Low Speed Bumper Impact \u2022 FMVSS208 Frontal Impact \u2022 FMVSS214 Static & Dynamic Side Impact \u2022 FMVSS301 Rear Impact & Fuel Integrity \u2022 FMVSS216 Roof Crush \u2022 FMVSS225 Child Restraint Anchorage \u2022 FMVSS201 Head Impact \u2022 FMVSS207\/210 Seatbelt Anchorage \u2022 Gravity Loading \u2022 Elastic Recovery After Dynamic Impact Such analyses encompass a wide variety of complex physical phenomena, and CAEFEA is equipped with vast array of features and capabilities to replicate these events. These include:\u2022 An extensive library of materials (more than any other code) capable of ac-curately modeling steel, aluminum, plastics, fabric, glass, rubber, foam, honeycomb, and many others under both static and high-speed dynamic conditions. Many of these material models also capture viscous, rate-de-pendent, and hyperelastic behavior, and there is a wide variety of both brittle and ductile failure options available.\u2022 An extensive selection of accurate and very general contact algorithms. These include surface-to-surface contacts, eroding contacts, tied interfaces, and many more.\u2022 An extensive selection of airbag modeling tools. Available methods include Control Volume, ALE, and CPM.\u2022 An extensive selection of seat belt related features, includ…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4,6],"tags":[9,10,14,15],"class_list":["post-2055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1","category-4","category-6","tag-automotive","tag-bio-medical","tag-energy","tag-metal-forming"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caefea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caefea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caefea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caefea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caefea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2055"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.caefea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4038,"href":"https:\/\/www.caefea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions\/4038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caefea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caefea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caefea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caefea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}