Customers expect a safe, reliable and high-quality driving experience. For Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), meeting these demands while reducing costs and increasing durability presents a significant challenge. Predicting vehicle dynamics behavior virtually is essential for accelerating development, achieving cost savings, and delivering the superior driving experience that customers demand.
SIMULIA provides both standalone and design-integrated multibody simulation solutions, including Simpack and the Suspension Analyst Role on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. These tools address a wide range of challenges in vehicle dynamics applications, enabling engineers to analyze and validate vehicle performance with precision.
Modern Vehicle Development Challenges
Developing modern vehicles involves several complex hurdles. Siloed design and analysis processes often lead to long design iteration loops and significant delays, especially when requirements change. Managing multiple models for various vehicle dynamics applications results in redundant data and tedious model conversion processes.
In addition, extreme load events or large-scale Design of Experiments (DOE) simulations of complex models demand exceptional solver stability and high numerical accuracy. Applications such as Software-in-the-Loop (SiL), Hardware-in-the-Loop (HiL), and Driver-in-the-Loop (DiL) require accurate, reliable real-time simulations with easy interfaces to hardware for both objective and subjective vehicle performance evaluations.
A Unified and Robust Solution
SIMULIA addresses these challenges with an integrated approach to multibody simulation. The Suspension Analyst Role on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform provides a unified Modeling and Simulation (MODSIM) environment. This approach breaks down the barriers between design and analysis, facilitating rapid product development and a quicker path to market.
MODSIM enables fast design iterations by providing a single source of truth for all stakeholders in the product development cycle. The unified environment on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform enables designers to harness simulation power early in the development process, fostering seamless collaboration and ensuring reliable results with minimal manual effort.
Robust and Accurate Multibody Dynamics Simulations
Our enterprise-level solutions feature the industry-proven Simpack solver technology. This allows simulating extreme load events without needing to tune solver settings. The solver’s accuracy is proven even for higher frequency applications, such as gearbox noise and vibrations. Fast Key Performance Indicator (KPI) assessments ensure quick, projectable results, helping teams make informed decisions.
Real-Time Simulation Capability
The unique Simpack Real-Time solver enables detailed, high-fidelity models to be simulated in real time without simplifications. This is crucial for SiL, HiL and DiL applications. User-friendly interfaces permit on-the-fly model parameter changes on simulators, eliminating time-consuming model reduction and validation steps. This capability reduces time and cost by minimizing the number of prototypes and tests while accelerating KPI assessments.
Streamlined Simulation Data Management
Our enterprise solution offers a single, user-friendly model database suitable for all vehicle dynamics applications. This provides a structured environment for storing model and simulation data. Companies can realize significant cost savings by reducing their tool landscape and eliminating model conversion processes. This also applies to the automation of simulation processes, where large-scale DOEs or multiple variant simulations require the evaluation and comparison of numerous product KPIs.
Why Choose SIMULIA?
Our solutions provide the tools necessary to overcome the challenges of modern vehicle dynamics assessments.
- Robust and Accurate Solver: The efficient multibody dynamics solver delivers precision.
- Real-Time Simulation: Unmatched capabilities for real-time model simulation without simplification.
- Flexible Body Integration: A unique technology for integrating flexible bodies.
- Intelligent Automation: Advanced scripting capabilities enable smart automation.
- Concurrent Engineering: The 3DEXPERIENCE platform facilitates fast, efficient and concurrent engineering.
By integrating design and simulation, SIMULIA empowers automotive OEMs, startups, race teams and suppliers to innovate faster and more efficiently. Our solutions help you deliver the safe, comfortable and high-performance vehicles your customers expect.
To find out more about how our multibody simulation solutions can support your vehicle development process, explore Multibody System Dynamics & Motion Simulation and get in touch with our sales team.
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