Disruptive Innovation?
The National Petroleum Council (a panel advising the US Energy Department) has just published a future fuels report stating that the internal combustion will remain the dominant power source for cars...
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My colleague, Giuseppe Resta, Manager, Global Automotive at Altair Engineering submitted the following blog post. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) just released its first results for...
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An old MG advertising slogan that dates back around 80 years, “Safety Fast,” can very well be applied to the work that Advanced Design Engineering Systems Solutions AG (ADESS) has performed for another...
View ArticleEngineered Plastics?
I was chatting recently with fellow Altair blogger Bob Yancey about the use of the word composites. Yancey will often write about the application of high-end laminate constructions for aerospace...
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The Challenge of Crashworthiness for Composite Cars
This post was taken from Altair Enlighten and contributed by my colleague, Giuseppe Resta, Manager, Global Automotive at Altair Engineering. It doesn’t seem so long ago that passenger safety and...
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Nature: The Greatest Force on Earth Driving the Design Process
Last week, the North American International Auto Show kicked off in Detroit’s newly renovated COBO Center with press and industry preview days before opening the show to the public last weekend. For...
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Advancing Composites in the Auto Industry
This post was taken from Altair Enlighten. In my new role as Altair’s Vice President of Global Automotive, I look forward to sharing automotive trends and news with you. To kick off my posts, I wanted...
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Optimization Strategies for Multi-Material Vehicles
This post was taken from Altair Enlighten and contributed by my colleague, Regu Ramoo, Director of Engineering at Altair ProductDesign. Many studies on automotive mass reduction have been undertaken...
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Fuel Economy & Footprint: What Does it Have to do with Mass Reduction?
This post was taken from Altair Enlighten and was contributed by Jay Baron, President, Chairman & CEO and Director at Center for Automotive Research (CAR) CAFE standards for model year 2017 have...
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Will 3D Printing & Optimization Revolutionize the Way We Design?
This post was taken from Altair Enlighten. Additive Layer Manufacturing (ALM) has been around for some time. I got involved with this industry almost 20 years ago when it was called Rapid Prototyping...
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