A New Model Reduction Method for Vehicle Crash Simulation

When major design changes are required to satisfy product performance late in the development process, significant cost and time are required to implement them. This is a particular problem in automotive development which requires a large amount time and cost. To alleviate this, automotive manufacturers have adopted the concept of "front-loading" to identify problems early-on in the development process. “Front-loading” is defined as "the distribution of development costs or time in large proportions in the early stages of the design process”.