Our impact in crash optimization
Induvos provides the automotive industry with three key benefits: Lightweight Design, Crash Safety and Manufacturability
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Lightweight Design
At Induvos, we recognize that in the contemporary automotive industry, the reduction of vehicle weight is a critical factor for cutting material costs, reducing fuel/energy consumption during operation, and ultimately decreasing harmful environmental emissions. In this era, where ecological sustainability is of utmost importance, lightweight construction in vehicles has become an indispensable aspect.
This concept of lightweight construction is particularly crucial in the realm of new vehicle concepts, such as electric mobility, which aims to significantly contribute to ecological sustainability. Electric vehicles inherently have a high weight due to their batteries, creating a need for weight minimization. Lightweight construction counteracts this challenge, potentially increasing the often-unsatisfactory range of electric vehicles.
For automobile suppliers and manufacturers, there’s a strong incentive to design light vehicles. In high-volume production, the adoption of lightweight construction techniques can result in savings amounting to millions in material costs. This cost efficiency is a vital factor, especially in an industry constantly under pressure to minimize costs without sacrificing quality. The challenge is compounded by significant competitive pressure from regions like Asia, where vehicles can often be developed and produced at considerably lower costs.
Despite the clear advantages of lightweight construction, automotive companies often face the challenge of balancing safety with the reduction of vehicle weight. This balance is hard to achieve because, typically, adding more material tends to make vehicles safer, but it also increases the weight, leading to higher costs for manufacturers, users, and the environment.
At Induvos, we’ve tackled this challenge by developing innovative software that employs a novel method for optimizing crash-loaded vehicle structures. Our solution harmonizes the demands of safety and lightweight construction, allowing the automotive industry to optimize crash-relevant body parts so that they meet crash requirements with the minimum amount of material necessary. Thereby, Induvos is propelling the advancement of lightweight construction in the automotive industry, leading to substantial cost savings and a significant ecological impact.
optimizing safety
Crash Safety
In the automotive industry, meeting both legislative and non-legislative safety requirements presents an ongoing challenge. The industry consistently strives to fulfill these standards, aiming to enhance vehicle safety and integrity. To achieve this goal, the automotive sector conducts crash tests to examine vehicles in specific crash scenarios, evaluating them against various parameters.
To minimize the reliance on costly physical crash tests, the automotive sector increasingly turns to simulation programs. These tools allow for virtual crash simulations, providing an early estimation of a vehicle’s deformation behavior in a crash scenario, long before physical tests are conducted. Our software plays a crucial role in this process, linking directly to these simulation programs. While the simulation programs calculate the crash simulations, our software automatically analyzes the deformation behavior of the vehicle.
Following this analysis, our software identifies specific deformation patterns and applies algorithms to suggest structural optimizations aimed at improving this deformation behavior. For example, our software can detect when two opposing walls of a structure move towards each other during a crash simulation. It then proposes the introduction of an additional wall to provide support, thereby enhancing the structure’s response to impact. This capability enables our software to autonomously generate suggestions for structural improvements to ensure compliance with required crash standards.
Through the integration of Induvos software into the vehicle design and development process, we directly contribute to a traffic environment characterized by enhanced safety. By reducing dependency on physical crash tests and utilizing our software’s capability for precise structural analysis and optimization, we empower the automotive industry to create vehicles that are not just safer but also more cost-effective and environmentally friendlier.
Streamlining Production Readiness
Manufacturability
In the automotive industry, ensuring that optimized vehicle structures are manufacturable on a mass scale is a key concern. Each manufacturing process, such as extrusion, comes with its own set of limitations that influence the capability to produce certain types of structures. For instance, specific wall thicknesses or minimum distances need to be maintained to enable the production of a structure through the desired manufacturing method.
A common issue faced today in the automotive industry is that other optimization methods do not incorporate desired manufacturing constraints within the optimization workflow. This means that, while these methods may optimize a structure for specific properties, they often neglect critical manufacturing guidelines, such as minimum wall thicknesses necessary for production through the desired method. Consequently, engineers are required to manually adjust optimized structures post-optimization to make them suitable for the chosen manufacturing process, a step that often entails significant time and financial investment.
Our optimization software offers a substantial advantage by allowing manufacturing constraints to be defined at the outset of the optimization process. During the automatic structure optimization performed by our software, these constraints are consistently considered in the design drafts. As a result, the optimized structures are ready for immediate production in mass manufacturing processes without the need for further time-consuming adjustments by engineers.
This capability shortens development times and saves valuable resources. Engineers can now focus entirely on optimizing structures without wasting time on post-optimization adjustments. Our approach ensures that innovation in vehicle design goes hand in hand with practical manufacturability, paving the way for the rapid introduction of safe, light, and manufacturable vehicles to the market.
optimizing safety
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In the automotive industry, meeting both legislative and non-legislative safety requirements presents an ongoing challenge. The industry consistently strives to fulfill these standards, aiming to enhance vehicle safety and integrity. To achieve this goal, the automotive sector conducts crash tests to examine vehicles in specific crash scenarios, evaluating them against various parameters.
To minimize the reliance on costly physical crash tests, the automotive sector increasingly turns to simulation programs. These tools allow for virtual crash simulations, providing an early estimation of a vehicle’s deformation behavior in a crash scenario, long before physical tests are conducted. Our software plays a crucial role in this process, linking directly to these simulation programs. While the simulation programs calculate the crash simulations, our software automatically analyzes the deformation behavior of the vehicle.
Following this analysis, our software identifies specific deformation patterns and applies algorithms to suggest structural optimizations aimed at improving this deformation behavior. For example, our software can detect when two opposing walls of a structure move towards each other during a crash simulation. It then proposes the introduction of an additional wall to provide support, thereby enhancing the structure’s response to impact. This capability enables our software to autonomously generate suggestions for structural improvements to ensure compliance with required crash standards.
Through the integration of Induvos software into the vehicle design and development process, we directly contribute to a traffic environment characterized by enhanced safety. By reducing dependency on physical crash tests and utilizing our software’s capability for precise structural analysis and optimization, we empower the automotive industry to create vehicles that are not just safer but also more cost-effective and environmentally friendlier.
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