Virtual Performance Solution for Automotive
Hear directly from our customers how VPS has helped them reduce their product design cycle and development costs.
ŠKODA has been using ESI Virtual Performance Solution (VPS) successfully for many years, to conduct virtual car crash tests, to ensure the safety of both the occupants and pedestrians, and to check the stiffness or frequency response of car body components such as the hood or headlamps, all on a single-core model. In designing the new and revolutionary ŠKODA Superb, we used VPS early in the development cycle, before design freeze, conducting thousands of virtual tests, investigating different options and design variants, making the best trade-offs, and ultimately obtaining 5 stars at the EuroNCAP. Read the full Success Story here.
HONDA R&D has been using ESI’s Virtual Performance Solution for over 20 years. Today, we are leveraging the capacities of Virtual Performance Solution’s single-core model on a full car for our latest vehicle platform development. The consistent chaining of virtual manufacturing results and virtual performance — not only for crash and safety domains but also for NVH and durability — is a definite technological breakthrough. Virtual Performance Solution enables us to ensure the right levels of product performance for lightweight design, and to face challenges related to evolving regulations.
With this further development of the software suite, ESI Group has achieved a quantum leap in the field of simulations. By being able to utilize a unique mathematical model for both crash and load testing, we’re improving our development efficiency at several stages of a project. Given the ever shortening development cycles in the automobile sector, this gives us a decisive competitive edge.
Simulation is key to our project development process. VPS allows us to identify not only the behavior of standard vehicle definition but also the probability to improve our crash performance and to build virtually every element that has an impact on our decision-making
Four or five years ago, I had high discrepancies between physical testing and my simulation results. Nowadays, I am in a very good range: I can do specific simulations in order to validate my models and then really make decisions on how to design the airbags. ESI’s Sim-Folder helps Audi design accurate airbag folding pattern in good timing.
The behavior of the dummy and the H-Model are comparable and show a lot of similar responses, but the H-Model gives more information about the injury mechanisms and the complex interaction of the human with the vehicle
VPS is a tailored simulation tool for advancing researches in biomechanics in replacement of impact tests with human body models.
Read more in details how Virtual Performance Solution can support the design of lightweight vehicles, and enables the virtual testing of challenging performance such as:
- Driving condition on wet road or under heavy rain, with VPS water flow module
- Interior acoustic for the complete range of frequencies
- Durability of strategic component, taking into account the effects of manufacturing
Virtual Performance Solution also delivers proven business value from the efficiency gained in car development.
