EUROMOTOR: New Advances in Body Engineering:
Lightweight material applications, Passive safe, 27th and 28th November 2002, Aachen



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About the Course

In October 1995, the first Euromotor Course "New Advances in Body Engineering" took place at the Institut für Kraftfahrwesen Aachen (ika) with speakers and participants from the automotive and supplier industry as well as research institutes. Due to the great success of the first event, the course has been held every year since then. This time it will take place at the ika on November 27th and 28th.

As the conference has an international orientation, all lectures, discussions and proceedings are exclusively held in english.

This year's conference deals with the two main themes of lightweight material applications and passive safety. Therefore we expect interesting discussions about new lightweight body concepts and trend-setting passive safety developments. Further lectures will give an overview over the application of modern design tools in the development process.

The event is organized for a limited number of participants. For each lecture there is a time limit of 30 minutes with additional 10 minutes left for discussion after each presentation. The limitation of participants and relatively long periods for lectures and discussion ensure an intense analysis of each subject.

A visit of the traditional Aachen christmas market and a dinner in a typical Aachen restaurant will conclude the evening of the first day. After the lectures of each day a presentation of ika's testing facilities is scheduled.

In case you are interested in participating in the conference, please send us the enclosed registration. It will be a pleasure for us to welcome you as participant.

Come and spend some informative days in Aachen

Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. H. Wallentowitz Dipl.-Ing. F. Friesen
Director of the Institute Head of Body Department

Program Wednesday 27th November 2002

8.30 - 9.00 Registration
9.00 - 9.10 Introduction
Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. H. Wallentowitz ika - RWTH Aachen
9.10 - 9.50 Materials for the automotive lightweight design
Dr.-Ing. H.-G. Herrmann, Dr. C. Mohrdieck, Dipl.-Ing. R. Bjekovic
DaimlerChrysler AG, Ulm
9.50 - 10.30 Aluminium - the light body material
Dipl.-Ing. K.-H. von Zengen
EAA - European Aluminium Association, Bruxelles (B)
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 - 11.40 Aluminium technology - wide range of possibilities for efficient lightweight solutions in car design
Dipl.-Ing. W. Guth, Dipl.-Ing. G. Bergmann, Dipl.-Ing. R. Beyer
Hydro Aluminium Automotive Structures, Heidelberg
11.40 - 12.20 Aluminium tailored blanks - a new semi-finished product for advanced lightweight vehicle concepts
Dr.-Ing. C. Maier, Dipl.-Ing. S. Wöste
Hydro aluminium GmbH, Bonn
12.20 - 13.40 Lunch
13.40 - 14.20 The body in white (ASF) of the new A8 series
Dipl.-Ing. H. Mayer
Audi AG, Neckarsulm
14.20 - 15.00 Material database for the construction and the manufacturing of a safety component made of fibre-reinforced plastic
Dipl.-Ing. P. Urban
ika - RWTH Aachen
15.00 - 15.20 Coffee break
15.20 - 16.00 Advanced composites for body in white applications - potentials and challenges
Dr.-Ing. J. Kopp, Dr.-Ing. H. Friedrich, J. Stieg
Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg
16.00 - 16.40 Advanced materials for improved passive safety performance of body structures
Dr.-Ing. R. Schilling, Dr.-Ing. H. Lanzerath, Dr.-Ing. J. Wesemann
Ford-Werke AG, Köln
16.40 - 17.40 Demonstration of ika testing facilities
19.30 Evening event

Program Thursday 28th November 2002

9.00 - 9.40 Passive safety requirements of convertible vehicles
Dipl.-Ing. M. Sandfort, Dipl.-Ing. N. Schulte - Frankenfeld,
Dipl.-Ing. A. Klocke, Dipl.-Ing. R. Hellmich
W. Karmann GmbH, Osnabrück
9.40 - 10.20 New developments in a combined occupant-, pedestrian- and vehicle protection
Dipl.-Ing. P. E. Krug, Dipl.-Ing. T. Hansen, W. Dohrmann
ZF Boge GmbH, Bonn
10.20 - 10.50 Coffee break
10.50 - 11.30 Approach to increased pedestrian safety in lower leg to bumper collisions
Dipl.-Ing. H. Bachem
ika - RWTH Aachen
11.30 - 12.10 Crash simulation in body development - state of the art and future challenges
Dr.-Ing. C. Lübbing BMW AG, München
12.10 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 14.10 Time to fire analysis and frontal crash sensing system and algorithm development using FE-analysis
Dr. B. Pipkorn
Autoliv Research, Vargarda (S)
14.10 - 14.50 Multidisciplinary design optimisation of full vehicle for crashworthiness and NVH
Dr.-Ing. H. Müllerschön
DYNAmore GmbH, Stuttgart
14.50 - 15.20 Coffee break
15.20 - 16.00 Operational strength simulation of car bodies in the development process with automated generation of FE-models
Dipl.-Ing. G. Kepplinger, Dipl.-Ing. M. Lang, Dipl.-Ing. B. Salcher
Magna Steyr Engineering, Graz (A)
16.00 - 17.00 Demonstration of a crash test in crash test facility of ika
17.00 End of course