Optimizing the Battery Protection of the Audi Q8 e-tron
Finding the best cross-sections for rockers and battery protection profiles is challenging due to the wide range of requirements that must be met during impact scenarios and manufacturing. Traditionally, this design process is labour-intensive, requiring significant expertise and a bit of luck to find suitable drafts. iNDUVOS Profile was developed to tackle these demanding situations.
To showcase the potential of our optimization software, we optimized the battery protection of an Audi Q8 e-tron. Our approach resulted in a mass reduction of over 9% while cutting development time from several months to just a few weeks, all while ensuring the manufacturability of the new designs.
Optimizing roll formed aluminum profiles
Dive into the future of material-efficient design, leveraging aluminum’s lightweight properties for enhanced fuel efficiency, recyclability, and structural innovation. Join us in reshaping the automotive industry, accelerating development processes, and reducing material costs. Explore our collaboration with the chair for Optimization of Mechanical Structures of the University of Wuppertal and Novelis, a leading producer of flat-rolled aluminum and the world’s largest recycler of aluminum. Discover how to design crashworthiness roll-formed profiles and stay ahead of the competition.
Inlay structure optimisation of a crash box for the low-speed crash RCAR
As part of a project at Bergische Universität Wuppertal, funded by the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action together with the Research Association of Automotive Technology (FAT) and the German Federation of Industrial Research Associations (AiF), methods for topology optimization of fully scalable three-dimensional frame structures for crash loads are being explored. The goal is to use flexible geometry descriptions to automatically optimize parts of vehicles using combined profiles.