Partipants from automotive industry, software companies, research organisations and universities joined in April 2002 the auto>opt project in order to develop and improve tools for the design and in particular the numerical optimisation of automotive products. auto>opt was funded by the ministry for research and technology. The direct involvement of automotive companies ensured the market relevance of the developments. The interdisciplinary collaboration between universities and research organisations with software companies fostered innovation as well as exploitation of the results during and after the end of the project. The project was coordinated by the Fraunhofer Institute SCAI. The new or improved software-tools improved the development of automotives by advanced simulation during the concept phase, data mining on finite element data and optimisation for complex problems. The concept design of a car determines already the largest part of its production costs. A new software solution jointly developed by SFE and INTES allows analysing crash behaviour and stiffness properties by simulation already during early concept phases. This allows to evaluate the CAE properties of different concept already in very early phases to ensure excellent functional behaviour and avoid expensive redesigns during prototype developments. An example of advanced optimisation is the design of an engine hood for reduced injuries in case of accidents with pedestrians. auto>opt focussed on three application areas for numerical simulation in automotive design: structural analysis, crash simulation and metal forming. The metal forming application area seams to be different from the other application areas, because crash simulation and structural analysis are usually treated during prototype design. The major focus of auto>opt was to support the step from a single simulation towards design and simulation analysis of sets of simulations and process chains. Many automotive companies have acquired resources to perform several ten's of thousands of simulations per year and store all these results into data bases. This requires more efficient preprocessing tools in order to generate variants much faster than currently, requests faster simulation tools and their use for optimisation and allows to generate additional knowledge from the comparative analysis of sets of simulation runs. For more detailed information on the project results is available at www.auto-opt.de as well as in the scientific papers included in the list of references. The internet presentation contains also contact persons for each of the participating organisation.


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    Titel :

    AUTO>OPT: new tools for optimisation, interaction and robustness


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    AUTO-OPT: Neue Tools für Optimierung, Interaktion und Robustheit


    Beteiligte:


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2006


    Format / Umfang :

    9 Seiten, 25 Quellen


    Anmerkungen:

    (nicht paginiert)


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch






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