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Honda Improves
Its CAE Capability
Although the people at Honda R&D; Americas, by and
large, work on vehicle development, they recently
went to work on developing visualization software for
crash test simulation. They worked with developers
from software company 3DXCITE ( rtt.ag ), which is
the developer of 3D visualization software known as
DELTAGEN.
What they did was work so that the visualization
software was integrated with the LS-DYNA ( lstc.com )
non-linear crash simulation software, which Honda
has been using since 1998, so that the output would
provide vehicle developers with a highly realistic
rendering of the crash consequences.
With the software, Honda engineers can manipulate the
rendering, rotate the view as required, strip away parts
of the vehicle to look at a section or component, make
the crash barrier transparent, and change point-of-view
of the event. The simulation data is rendered in real-
time on a Quadro graphics workstation from NVIDIA
( nvidia.com ).
Eric DeHof, Technical Leader for CAE in
the Crash Safety Group of Honda R&D;
Americas, said, "With this technology, we
have gained the potential to improve the
quality of decision making and reduce
the time required for fnalizing a vehicle
design by greatly increasing the ease of
communicating and understanding the
results of a crash test simulation." He
added, "This tool will promote a more
complete understanding of vehicle safety
design among all engineers involved in
our vehicle development process."
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p This is what the Honda crash-test CAE
results look like before they worked with
3DXCITE . . .
t . . . and this is what they look like after.