Experience a complete virtual crash and safety laboratory with the aid of the ANSA pre-processor

With safety protocols and regulations becoming increasingly enhanced, safety analysts try to keep up replicating all possible crash event scenarios in laboratories using specifications that frequently change. In this pursuit, it is crucial for analysts to have at their disposal accurate and robust digital models that enable the tune and study of any real crash event parameter. Through the ANSA pre-processor, BETA CAE Systems offers an extensive crash and safety portfolio of automated tools for simulation modelling, to create a complete “virtual crash and safety laboratory”. Such tools include this of the seat and the dummy guide, from the identification of HPOINT of the seat to the positioning of the coupled restrained seat-dummy system according to a regulation or a test data position, available not only for standard crash dummies but also for human body models. Pedestrian and Interior tools ensure the proper marking of the exterior and interior of the vehicle but also the accurate positioning of the headform to the desired targets. The Impactor tool enables the positioning of barriers/impactors according to all available regulations. Moreover, the Knee Mapping plugin helps the analyst avoid knee modifier, while Airbag stitching and folding tools set up the pre-crash simulations required for the proper treatment of the airbags. The current paper presents all the afore mentioned tools and more handy features that crash and safety analysts need to set up detailed and accurate models for different regulations fast, and with the minimum human interaction.