Quick guide: Predicting pass-by noise earlier in the vehicle development cycle

 
Noise pollution is an emerging issue and is becoming a hot topic around the world. More and more countries strive to improve the living environment and decreasing sound levels is one of the …

Bring multi-physics and durability testing to the next level

Discover how rapid product and market changes impact durability engineering. Learn how you can bring your durability testing to the next level.

Vehicle NVH testing in operational conditions: Shift into higher gear

Automotive NVH testing in operational conditions
Do you, as an NVH test engineer, regularly face the situations when you need to redo some measurements? For example, due to erroneous instrumentat…

“And the Best Technical Paper award goes to … ”

Two weeks ago, at the Symposium on International Automotive Technology (SIAT) in Pune, India, Simcenter won awards for Best Technical Paper. Not one award, but two!
 
The SIAT conference i…

The Vera autonomous truck

Why truck cabin comfort matters: the example of Volvo Trucks

 
This is Vera.
 
Vera is an electric, autonomous vehicle that is designed to optimize transport in highly-repetitive, short distance flows with large volumes of goods.
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Listening during a sound evaluation is the most important test you can make

On-demand Webinar: Sound Quality Fundamentals

Join me on the 20th of December for a free webinar on the Fundamentals of Sound Quality. I will be talking about the human hearing system, how we perceive sounds and how different the classical measu…

Why transfer path analysis is not established technology

280.000.000 results. That’s what you get when typing ‘transfer path analysis’ in Google Search. No wonder. The TPA methodology exists for over 20 years and is widely applied across all industries. Ho…

The 3D shaker is used to perform multi-axis vibration testing

Why perform multi-axis vibration testing?

Multi-axis vibration qualification testing: why bother? Why is this last step in a product development process an important one? And why do renowned universities like the University of Ferrara spend …

The End of the Powertrain Bias

Internal Combustion Engine vs. Electric Machine, this seems a famous game these days. Media, politicians, OEMs, car owners – all of them have their arguments and for one or the other reasons, they ha…