This guest contribution is written by Jonathan Melvin Ph.D., Application Engineer, Active Human Models at Siemens Digital Industries Software (formerly known as TASS International), a member of the Altair Partner Alliance. ‘The Pull’ From Advances in the Automotive Industry Simcenter Madymo … Read More
I recently moved to California in the U.S. from Gothenburg, Sweden, two locations where electric vehicles have rapidly grown in popularity in recent years. Although I’m yet to make the jump to a fully electric car myself, the technology is … Read More
What does IoT have to do with racing toy-cars? Everything (if you want to learn more about IoT). Much has been written about IoT but nothing comes close to explaining the concept like experience-based learning. Imagine being at a global … Read More
Over the years, computer-aided design (CAD) system geometry has evolved…from wireframes to surfaces to solids, and parametric to direct. Simulation, however, remains stuck using the same old beam, shell or simplified-solids paradigm invented more than 50 years ago. As CAD … Read More
When I began my automotive engineering career, simulation technologies were primarily thought of as validation tools, used to verify the performance of components and system against crash, NVH, durability targets etc. Simulation rarely influenced the design early on. Instead, it … Read More
We are proud to announce the winners of the 2019 Altair Enlighten Award, the automotive industry’s only award dedicated to vehicle lightweighting. Presented annually in conjunction with the 2019 CAR Management Briefing Seminars (MBS), the award honors the year’s greatest … Read More
First introduced in the 1986 Buick Riviera, the in-vehicle touchscreen or Human-Machine Interface (HMI) is not a new technology. Today touchscreens, however, have since replaced the mechanical controls of old and become the new standard of automotive HMI.
The powertrain of electric vehicles must be developed to consider and finally fulfill an increasing number of internal, customer and legal requirements and must be developed with increasing ambitions concerning target fulfillment. The classical development strategies foresee individual development routes … Read More
Just hours before the 2019 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) opened its doors for the its Press Preview, another celebration of human ingenuity was coming to an end in Metro Detroit. Sunday, January 13th was in fact the last … Read More
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