Vergangene Veranstaltungen

25.09.2015, Aachen

Programmeflyer Agenda

In the next 20 years the number of small full electric vehicles and light-weight, alternatively powered vehicles will substantially increase especially in urban areas. These vehicles show distinctive design differences compared to traditional cars, finally based on extreme weight reduction. Therefore latest fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) material technologies needs to be utilized. Currently these funda­mental new designs and changes are not adequately addressed by current vehicle safety evaluation methods and regulations. VRU protection, compatibility with heavier opponents and also the introduction of ADAS to future traffic and transport systems have to be appropriately taken into account.

Therefore the EU research projects MATISSE and SafeEV applied new and advanced simulation tools & modelling techniques to improve and assess new, adaptive FRP crash structures and CNG storage systems on the one hand (MATISSE) and provided fundamental virtual methods and criteria (simulation tool chain) to evaluate compatibility, advanced pedestrian & occupant safety systems (SafeEV) on the other hand.

Both projects based their activities on an extensive analysis and identification of future traffic (>2025) and accident scenarios to define thereon relevant and new test scenarios and evaluation criteria for their application fields. Finally, new system designs for FRP structures and generic solutions for pedestrian & occupant protection were proposed and evaluated by the two projects – demonstrating the potential and applicability of these new virtual methods.

The 18 partners from 7 different countries of these two projects, as also a part of the SEAM cluster, will now demonstrate and communicate the projects outcome and would also like to discuss their findings & recommendations with relevant stakeholders, other research initiatives and interest groups on September 25th 2015 in a dedicated public workshop. The event will take place at the Institute for Automotive Engineering (ika) – RWTH Aachen University (Germany).