List of participants

Door fatigue test bench

durability vehicle door testing performed opening door from outside and closing door from inside; door can be opened from inside using the opening lever; test cycles allow free movement of the door;
capability to work from –20°C to +80°C with 90% of humidity (up to –40°C as optional);
capability to be used with different cars and commercial vehicles;
ergonomic operator pit and user friendly operator interface;
linear actuation to perform door opening and closing testing from outside or from inside, using the opening lever (optional);
window testing synchronized with door testing using integrated power supply (optional);
capability to interface to door ECUs via wired signals or communication buses;
test automation and report generation (optional);
adaptability to different door handles (optional).

Customers and Distributor of Door fatigue test bench

- Test, simulation and calculation methods of vehicles and components
- Vehicle design and development


Commercial Agreement

Vehicle Dynamics Simulation

AMET distributes and supports Mechanical Simulation Corporation (www.carsim.com) products in Italy France, Spain, Portugal and Eastern Europe.
MSC products include CarSim, TruckSim, BikeSim and other tools for vehicle dynamics modeling and simulation
CarSim, TruckSim and BikeSim simulate the dynamic behavior of racecars, passenger cars, light trucks, and utility vehicles.
It is built on decades of research in characterizing vehicles and reproducing their behavior with mathematical models CarSim is used to design, develop, test and plan vehicle programs.
CarSim combines a complete vehicle math model with high computational speed. CarSim easily supports real-time (RT) testing with hardware in the loop (HIL) using systems from most RT suppliers. This speed also helps with software that requires many repetitions (optimization, DOE, etc.).


Customers for software or engineering service

- Electronics, Microelectronics
- Car Inside
- Vehicle security and Occupant safety
- Powertrain Technology
- Tires
- Buses, trucks and heavy vehicles
- Safety on Roads - Intelligent Safety Systems
- Hybrid and Electric vehicles
- Test, simulation and calculation methods of vehicles and components
- Vehicle design and development

CAE Structural Analysis

Structural Optimization:
Topology&Topography, Size and Shape optimization

Passive Safety:
Full Vehicle analysis and Interior trims

Biomechanics:
Injury and pedestrian severity
Restraints attachments
FE dummies development

NVH:
Body in white, trimmed and full vehicle
Acoustic and panel participation
Powertrain applications

Fatigue:
Full vehicle fatigue
Durability with dynamic approach

Thermal Analysis:
Powertrain components
Coupled Thermal-Structural approach

Vehicle Dynamics:
Full vehicle and Virtual K&C and optimization
Suspensions tuning
Fully integrated MB-FEM for suspension

CFD:
Defrosting
HVAC ducts geometry optimization
Coupled CFD-Thermal
External aerodynamics

Composite materials design:
Lay-up optimization
Full vehicle and Components impact
Materials numerical characterization

Non-linear analysis:
Rubber components design and optimization
Denting
Highly non-linear of metal components


Customers for engineering services in virtual prototype simulation.

Customers need support to design and simulate new material and composite materials.

AMET has the capability of carrying on in-house virtual product development projects, with target achievement responsibility, as long as 2-3 years with teams of many people involved.

AMET is mainly active in the following markets:
- Automotive
- Truck
- Heavy Equipment

- Car Inside
- Advanced materials, Sustainable development, Diagnosis, Service and Recycling
- Vehicle security and Occupant safety
- Buses, trucks and heavy vehicles
- Test, simulation and calculation methods of vehicles and components
- Vibration and Acoustic engineering
- Vehicle design and development


Research and development, Technical Co-operation

HIL Test Bench for Validation of ABS and ESC Electronic Control Units.

Controls systems design for embedded applications:
-Dynamic systems modelling
-Control algorithms design
-Rapid Control Prototyping
-Model-Based control design
-From model to code via automatic code generation

Real-Time Hardware-In-the-Loop simulators design and supply, for example:
-Gas turbine controller
-Automotive suspension/engine/transmission/brake control ECU’s
-Agricultural tractor transmission engine controller
-Satellite launcher control simulator
-Electrical drives and power electronics controller

Rapid Prototyping:
-Customized solution for ECU prototype development

Networking and Communication Protocols expertise:
-CAN, MIL-1553, FlexRay, FireWire, BlueTooth, Ethernet, RS-232…

Software development, Human Machine Interface / GUI development:
-National Instruments LabView, Visual Basic, C, C++
-Test automation (Python, TestStand)
-Customization of Automatic Code Generation based on The MathWorks RTW

Costumers interest in HIL test bench.

AMET provide its customers with best-in-class solutions – i.e. methodologies, technologies and engineering services – for the design and development of industrial products, exploiting an integrated multi-domain model-based approach, to assure optimum system performance.

- Electronics, Microelectronics
- Buses, trucks and heavy vehicles
- Safety on Roads - Intelligent Safety Systems
- Hybrid and Electric vehicles
- Test, simulation and calculation methods of vehicles and components
- Vehicle design and development