Occupant Safety Experts, Cranfield Impact Centre, Select HyperWorks Enterprise Simulation Suite to Improve Vehicle and Pedestrian Safety Performance

“From former work experiences I already knew the HyperWorks suite very well and I know that it will help us to fulfill the everyday simulation tasks we face as efficiently as possible,” said Prof. Kambiz Kayvantash, Director of CIC and Professor at Cranfield University. “As a leading authority in occupant safety and biomechanics analysis, it is important to us that the tools we use are intuitive while remaining powerful enough to meet the highly complex challenges involved with crash protection, pedestrian impact and accident investigation. We selected the HyperWorks suite as it offers an unrivalled selection of integrated CAE tools that our engineers will use every day to develop innovative solutions.”

“HyperWorks offers us extremely good value for our investment, in fact I consider it the ‘Microsoft Office’ of engineering with an expansive set of tools under one license”, he adds. “The combination of RADIOSS for analysis and HyperStudyDSS for design of experiments and optimization allows us to quickly explore design variations and deliver the best solution to our clients for both material utilization and crash performance. This added capability combined with our own expertise truly sets us apart in the vehicle safety market.”
“We are very pleased that CIC have selected our solution for occupant safety and biomechanics applications and I know that they will benefit from the product suite”, said Maurice Linscott, Regional Director, Altair Engineering, UK. “In today’s environment, vehicles need not only be safe and as environmentally friendly as possible; but, the safety of the occupant and pedestrians is paramount. To reach these goals, engineers need to investigate the relationship between safety and fuel efficiency more thoroughly. RADIOSS, as the industry leading crash and occupant safety solver solution, is therefore the best choice for CIC to deal with these challenges. Its repeatability, scalability, and accuracy make it the analysis tool of choice for many of the worlds leading OEMs and suppliers.”

Professor Kambiz Kayvantash will present a technical paper on the use of HyperWorks in biomechanical applications at the 6th Altair CAE Technology Conference on 14th May 2009 at the Heritage Motor Centre in Gaydon, Warwickshire, UK. Details of the paper ‘HUMOS – A FE Human model for advanced safety and comfort assessments’ can be found at www.altairhyperworks.co.uk/technology.