Full Vehicle, Body & Closures
Design
Worked on 20+ vehicle programs for OEM customers in NA & EU
Competencies
- Designing of the parts & sub-assemblies
- Assembly sequence & spot welding
- Stamping feasibility, design for assembly
- Validation of the design with CAE Support
- Design improvements
- Digital mockup with DMU – Space Analysis to check the interference, clearance & contact between parts
- 3D drawings (Reduced Drawings)
- Geometrical dimensioning & Tolerance
- Manufacturing, installation and welding drawings
Domains
- BIW: Underbody, side frame, front-end and rear-end modules, roof
- Closures – Doors, deck lid, bonnet
Simulation
Durability
Full vehicle and Body
- Damage & fatigue life estimation under service loads, body strength simulations per ECE-R14, FMVSS 207/210 & FMVSS 225
- Shock tower & towing hook studies
- Door upper frame deflection & mirror vibration analysis, sag & sash rigidity analysis, over check analysis
- Torsional, lateral, & longitudinal stiffness analysis of lift gate and hood assemblies
- Oil canning, denting and slam analysis of doors, hood, & lift gate
Crashworthiness, Occupant Safety, & Pedestrian Protection
- Frontal, side, and rear crash (various regulations)
- Roof Crush
- Pedestrian protection
- Occupant Simulation
NVH
- Panel contribution
- Frequency Response Analysis, including acoustics
- Global and local static & dynamic stiffness of BIW and TMB
- Beam-shell modeling
CFD
- External aerodynamics for drag and lift prediction
- Front end/underhood flow and underhood/under-body thermal management
