Automotive & transportation

Crashworthiness, impact and structural performance through simulation.

We assess vehicle crashworthiness, cab structural integrity, rollover and component response, providing engineering evidence for design development and verification.

Discuss a requirement

Specialist off-road vehicle in operation

Follow load transfer and deformation through the event.

Crash and impact assessments involve inertia, evolving contact, large deformation, plasticity and material failure. Explicit dynamics provides a time-resolved view of load transfer and the mechanisms governing structural response.

We support defined regulatory assessments, design comparison and structural development alongside the client’s design and physical test programmes.

Frontal Impact

Structural response to frontal and pillar impact loading.

ROPS

Rollover protective system assessments to regulatory standards.

Impact & drop

Transient loading of components, assemblies and structures.

Vibration & Shock

Frequency response analysis of equipment exposed to harsh vibration.

Typical applications

From regulatory assessment to design development.

The same modelling framework can be used to reproduce a defined test or investigate a less prescriptive engineering event.

Regulatory loading

Assess response under defined impact conditions against the applicable acceptance criteria.

Crashworthiness

Assess structural deformation, intrusion and energy absorption.

Protective structures

ROPS and other structures intended to preserve occupant space.

Component development

Latches, brackets, mounts and local structures under dynamic loading.

Standards & engineering context

Analysis built around the requirement.

Regulatory assessments are developed around the applicable loading conditions, model configuration and acceptance criteria. Modelling assumptions and verification evidence are documented, with test correlation considered where representative validation data are available.