HyperWorks for Crash, Safety and Impact Analysis

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Crash, Safety & Impact

Altair provides a premier solutions for all crash and safety related simulations. All aspects from modeling and simulation to remote simulation for large result files are covered.

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Crash and safety conditions drive the design in most of the transportation industries. This is particularly true in the automotive industry.

HyperWorks is the leading CAE integration platform for crash and safety design. It covers all the different steps from meshing to optimization including:

Vehicle modeling and assembly using HyperMesh
Analysis setup - including model checking, dummy positioning, airbag folding using HyperCrash
Crash analysis using RADIOSS
Visualization - results analysis and report automation using HyperView
Study and optimization using HyperStudy and OptiStruct

“Altair HyperWorks, in particular HyperMesh, OptiStruct, RADIOSS, and HyperView, is the standard tool we use in our daily work to support customers like Dorel Juvenile to develop better, more innovative products in a shortened time to market.”

–Harold van Aken

CEO and Senior Simulation Engineer of Code Product Solutions

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High-performance crash analysis on a 10 million elements model with RADIOSS

Photorealistic rendering of a crash result in solidThinking Evolve

Dedicated crash pre-processing with HyperCrash

High-performance crash analysis on a 10 million elements model with RADIOSS Car pile-up benchmark with RADIOSS Photorealistic rendering of a crash result in solidThinking Evolve Video overlay in HyperView Dedicated crash pre-processing with HyperCrash Occupant safety simulation

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Vehicle Modeling

HyperMesh presents users with an advanced suite of easy-to-use tools to build and edit CAE models.

CAD treatment for crash: detections of specific geometric features such as beads, crush initiators, fillets and flanges
Removes unwanted holes or adds washers around bolted locations
Midsurface creation and treatment
Morphing
Solid meshing (hexa once mappable solids)

Experience why transportation engineers worldwide recognize HyperWorks as the premier suite of analysis tools for structural design under crash and safety conditions.

Analysis Setup

HyperCrash is a highly tuned modeling environment for crash analysis and safety evaluation in the HyperWorks simulation framework.

Highly tailored crash and safety modeling environment
Fast, high-quality model creation and set-up
Database driven part replacement
Modern, intuitive and crash oriented GUI
System Swap
Mesh tools for mesh correction
Mass Balance
Connections (creation, modification and check, import, and more)
Multi-solver – Translation capabilities
Safety
- Dummy Positioner
- Support of FTSS dummies
- Seatbelt Generator
- Airbag Folder
- Seat Deformer
- Library Data Base

Crash Analysis

RADIOSS is the leading solution to simulate highly complex problems such as contact, impact, automotive safety-related performance, occupant behavior, manufacturing processes, non-linear materials, and fluid-structure interaction scenarios. Altair RADIOSS is a 5-star worthy crash code.

RADIOSS 14.0 release

Contact

An improved formulation for the penalty tied interface (/INTER/TYPE2 – Spotflag=26) extends the application usage and improves the result quality
Static friction, dynamic friction and damping coefficient input allows a better control of relative motion between rigid parts in contact (/INTER/TYPE6)
New options in the new general contacts (/INTER/TYP24) allows to solve more complex problems for the electronic device drop test

Elements

Cluster of elements allows to easier compute the force and moment in the multi-elements connection model and allows to define global failure parameters
Solid elements are able to switch to Smooth Particles Hydrodynamics (SPH) after large deformation or damage
Simulation of the active muscle behavior is possible with a new spring element (/PROP/TYPE46)

Material Laws & Rupture Criteria, EOS

Composites can be defined in terms of stack and plies which allows for easier communication between the solvers RADIOSS and OptiStruct
Direct coupling with MDS is now available as beta version
An UHSS material model allows to compute mechanical, metallurgical and thermal change during hot stamping process (/MAT/LAW80)
Local plasticity and damage can be better modeled with an new anisotropic Hill criterion and non-associated plastic yield with strain hardening combined with Swift and Voce formulations (/MAT/LAW84) and can be linked to the Extended Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion from MIT (/FAIL/EMC)
The fracture limit during a metal forming process can be better predicted based on the localized bifurcation theory and the instability theory for elastoplastic material (/FAIL/NXT)
The XFEM failure method is improved and extended to more shell formulations

General features

The Finite Volume Method (FVM) is parallelized in multi-CPU (single machine) and the initial volume mesh can be automatically done in RADIOSS starter
Newly imposed displacement (/IMPDISP/FGEO) or velocity (/IMPVEL/FGEO) features allow easily setting airbags from its folding position to its initial position in the vehicle
Optimization parameters can be set in the RADIOSS for free shape, free size, topology and topography and composite optimization using Equivalent Static Load Method (ESLM) and OptiStruct capabilities

Improvements

Many improvements are done for the multi-domain method for the performances, scalability, and compatibility with different RADIOSS options. Time history outputs are now written in the single file
For the sub-model method, multiple section files can be written at the same time from the same model
More kinematic constraints (RBE2, RBE3) can be used with the Advanced Mass Scaling method (AMS)
The dynamic user libraries (.dll or .so) can be compiled with free compilers and the cost of the dynamic user libraries can be taken into account to optimize the HMPP domain decomposition
The global HMPP scalability is improved and the CPU cost of the model is decreased (around 20%)

MADYMO from TASS includes WorkSpace pre- and post-processing tools, the MADYMO Dummy Models database, and MADYMO Coupling Solver, which allows any of the MADYMO dummy or human models to be used in a co-simulation with an external FE solver like RADIOSS.

Visualization

The HyperWorks CAE environment delivers state-of-the-art technologies for 3D animation and data processing of multi-body simulation results. HyperView and HyperGraph allow complete post processing and visualization environment for crash simulations, engineering data and digital video management including synchronization.

Other features include:

Streamlined GUI enabling fast results visualization, comparison & interrogation
Multi model support
Amazingly fast post processor - sets a new standard for speed and integration of test data and CAE results in post processing (H3D & ABF format)
Direct export to MS Office
Report templates
Tightly integrated environment
Animation, video, and plotting in one window
Interaction between animation and plotting
Open architecture system
Customizable and extendable via TCL/TK
Integrated with Altair Process Manager

Study & Optimization

HyperStudy is an optimization and stochastic software that allows exploring and optimizing the performance and robustness of designs. Because of its architecture, it can work with most solvers on the market today.

Some of the features include:

Model evaluation and process management
Design Exploration:
- Sensitivity
- Robustness
- Reliability
Component optimization
Material characterization
Automatic design rating (versus EuroNcap or IIHS)

Safety Tools

Safety Models complete the HyperWorks Crash & Safety Performance Solution with a broad correlated set of occupant models, impactors and barrier models.

Close cooperation with Humanetics and Cellbond drive the developments to high quality safety tools.

Available RADIOSS Dummies:

Frontal impact dummies
- Hybrid II (50th percentile) rigid dummy for aeronautics applications
- Express Hybrid III 50th, & 5th percentile dummies (Humanetics)
- Hybrid III 50th, 95th & 5th percentile dummies (Humanetics)
Side impact dummies:
- ES2 & ES2-re (Humanetics)
- FTSS SID-IIs SBL C & D (Humanetics)
- US SID
- SIDHIII
- WorldSID 50% (Humanetics)
- WorldSID 5% (Humanetics)
Rear impact dummy
- BIORID IIg
Child dummies
- Hybrid III 6 years
- Hybrid III 10 years (Humanetics)
- P series 3, 6 and 10 years, 18 months
- Q series 3 years (inlcuding side impact version ), new born, 1 year, 1.5, 6 & 10 years (Humanetics)
- CRABI 12 months (Humanetics)
Pedestrian impactors
- Head (EEVC adults and Child, FMVSS 201)
- Pedestrian Head forms EEVC
- Lower leg EEVC impactor
- Upper leg EEVC impactor
- Standing HIII 50th rigid dummy
- Standing HIII child 6 years rigid dummy
- Autoliv-Chalmers standing dummy
- FlexPLI (Humanetics)
Human dummy model
- Complete human model: Humos2
- Human head, leg and foot models
Available RADIOSS Barriers :
- Frontal barriers
- ODB (ECE 94 frontal regulation) solid & shell models
- PDB V8XT proposed by EEVC WG 15 for crash impact compatibility - shell & solid models
- TRL full width (consumer information test NCAP) - shell & solid models
Side barriers
- NHTSA FMVSS 214 - solid & shell models
- Progress ECE 95– solid & shell models (Cellbond)
- AEMDB V3.9 = new proposal to update regulation EEVC W13 - solid & shell models (Cellbond)
- IIHS SUV Barrier - solid & shell models (Cellbond)
Rear barriers
- RCAR IIHS low impact
- US Rear impact barrier FMVSS 310
- Rear impact ECE barrier

HUByx by CEDREM is a finite element model of the human body simulating all the bones and organs as well as the internal fluid in between them, enabling the propagation of pressure wave inside the body.

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HyperCrash Robust pre-processing environment specifically designed to automate the creation of high-fidelity models for crash analysis and safety evaluation. Overview Video | Learn More

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