The automotive CAECompanion 2016/2017 provides information on our conferences and seminars in CAE and related areas. 47 pages of CAE knowledge provide invaluable information about the theory and application of numerical simulation in the CAE-based automotive development process.

The CAE knowledge pages have been extended with 4 new and most interesting contributions:

• Spot Weld Modeling for Crash Simulation (Silke Sommer - Fraunhofer Ernst Mach Institute)
• Advances in Direct Time Integration Schemes for Dynamic Analysis (Robert Kroyer - MBDA Deutschland, Kenth Nilsson - Volvo Penta, Klaus-Jürgen Bathe - Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Material- and Failure criteria of Glass Models for Crash Simulation -- X-FEM (Marian Bulla et. al. - Altair Engineering)
• Operational strength under consideration of random loads in the frequency domain (Walter Hinterberger - Magna Engineering Center Steyr)

• Introduction to the Python Programming Language (Dr. André Backes - TECOSIM Technische Simulation GmbH)
• Interior Development - Fundamentals, Materials, Design, Manufacturing (Dipl.-Ing. Timo Baumgärtner - csi entwicklungstechnik GmbH)
• Passenger Cars in Low-Speed Crashes (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bachem - Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences

More Information: carhs.de/caecompanion