Safety

Calculations concerning the protection of occupants and pedestrians comprise explicit crash calculations as well as rigid-body programmes and coupled programmes. Though the same boundary conditions and load cases as for crash simulations apply, these calculations are focussed on interactions between the restraint systems and the occupants and/or pedestrians than on the vehicle structure. 

Application range (Extract):

Frontal crash

• Driver/ passenger
• Driver airbag/ passenger airbag
• Belted/ unbelted
• Knee impact (according to FMVSS 208)

Lateral impact

• Complete simulation on HiGe   
• Side impact airbag

Interior

• Worst case design studies of the passenger compartment (according to ECER 17/21 and FMVSS 201)

Seats

• ECE R14
• FMVSS 225
• Frontal crash with dummy
• Rear crash with dummy
• Load protection
• ISOFIX layout calculation

Pedestrian protection

• Development and validation of impactor models
• Evaluation of as-is design (according to EEVC WG17, 2003/102/EU und NCAP)
• Detail analysis and component optimisation