Rollover Protection Assessment
Simulating complete vehicle rollover behaviour and assessing the response of protective structures, with detailed insight into motion, ground contact, deformation and load transfer.
Assess rollover protection beyond standard certification requirements.
Use simulation to conduct additional due-diligence assessments of safety-critical rollover protection systems, with the objective of enhancing occupant protection beyond prescribed regulatory test conditions.
Validate the finite element model's rollover response.
Replicate the conditions of an FMVSS 208 physical rollover trial and correlate the predicted vehicle response with the test observations. This provides confidence in the model's ability to predict rollover behaviour under additional representative scenarios.
Predict vehicle performance under real-world rollover conditions.
Conduct sensitivity studies investigating variations in terrain, vehicle velocity and design configuration without the need for repeated physical testing. The simulations provide insight into opportunities to enhance occupant protection.
Replicate physical test conditions through simulation.
Simulating contractual and regulatory test conditions during design development enables engineers to assess structural performance, quantify potential improvements and refine designs before committing to manufacture and physical testing.
Quantifying rollover response and protective performance.
Simulation enables detailed assessment of vehicle motion and protective-structure response throughout the rollover event. Comparing results across different terrain conditions, vehicle velocities and design configurations provides valuable evidence to quantify improvements in occupant protection.
Vehicle kinematics
Assess the effect of vehicle orientation, velocity and changes in terrain.
Occupant spaces
Monitor clearances between occupant spaces, internal components and the ground plane.
Design iteration
Quantify improvements in protective performance resulting from design modifications.
Enhanced protection
Evaluate rollover scenarios that would be cost prohibitive through physical testing alone.
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Specialist support for rollover and protective-structure assessments.
Our engineers provide explicit dynamics expertise for vehicle motion, structural response and design verification within wider development programmes.