Accelerating Regulatory Test Simulation with LS- DYNA through Process Guidance Technology

With the strength in implementing best practices process guidance technology has proven dramatically reduced lead times in pre and post processing while meeting the increasing complexity imposed by ever changing safety regulations. Using predefined template processes for regulatory tests, for example for Euro NCAP, ACEA, or FMVSS standards, process guidance technology allows users to be driven or guided by ready made test templates for the most common load cases with LS-DYNA and other crash and safety solvers. When integrated in the pre and post environment modelling and results preparation for load cases such as ECE-21, FMVSS 208, the bumper test, or pedestrian safety, analysis loops are reduced from days and hours down to minutes. This presentation describes why and how process guidance technology is introduced, covering both the technological and organisational aspects and decision made as part of the implementations. With the example of pedestrian safety processes the benefits and issues of implementations are presented.