On 7th and 8th December 2005 the EUROMOTOR course „New Advances in Body Engineering” took place at the Institut für Kraftfahrwesen Aachen (ika).
EUROMOTOR is a trainee program, which is supported by the European Union. The aim of this program is the exchange of experiences between engineers of the worldwide automotive industry and supplier industry as well as the universities.
Thereby courses in almost all topic areas of the automobile are offered (for example Body Engineering, Vehicle Dynamics, Electronics Engineering). As the conference has an international orientation, all lectures, discussions and proceedings are exclusively held in English.
Also this year we attracted again reputable companies and speakers of the automotive industry and supplier industry. The following main topics in the field of body engineering formed thereby the contentwise emphasis of the course:
After the lectures of the first day, a presentation of different testing facilities of the Institut für Kraftfahrwesen Aachen (ika) and the Forschungsgesellschaft Kraftfahrwesen mbH Aachen (fka) was scheduled. On the second day the course ended with a spectacular live crash in the internal crash test facility.
| 8.30 - 9.00 | Registration |
| 9.00 - 9.10 | Introduction Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. H. Wallentowitz ika - RWTH Aachen |
| 9.10 - 9.50 | FE modelling criteria for failure mode of welded joint in aluminium structures Eng. Massimo Pettazzoni, Eng. Flavio Limongelli Ferrari Auto S.p.A., Maranello, (I) |
| 9.50 - 10.30 | Usage of coupled CAE-tools in combined simulation Dipl.-Ing. Jürgen Diehm Wagon Automotive GmbH, Waldaschaff |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00 - 11.40 | Structural improvements for the lateral pole impact Dipl.-Ing. Markus Bröckerhoff ika - RWTH Aachen |
| 11.40 - 12.20 | Optimisation of a door reinforcement for a crash loadcase Dr.-Ing. Bernhard Wiedemann, Dipl.-Ing. Ditwald Bölke Altair Engineering GmbH, Böblingen |
| 12.20 - 13.40 | Lunch |
| 13.40 - 14.20 | Structural optimisation focussing on vehicle safety performance Dipl.-Ing. Jörgen Hilmann, Dr.-Ing. Michel Pass Ford Werke GmbH, Köln |
| 14.20 - 15.00 | Effective optimisation strategies for highly non-linear applications as crash and passive safety Dr.-Ing. Heiner Müllerschön Dynamore GmbH, Stuttgart |
| 15.00 - 15.20 | Coffee break |
| 15.20 - 16.00 | Passive pedestrian safety develpoment for the Opel Zafira II Dr. math. Grace Thompson, Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Wanke Adam Opel AG, Rüsselsheim |
| 16.00 - 17.00 | Demonstration of ika testing facilities |
| 19.30 | Evening event |
| 9.00 - 9.40 | Optimisation of tailor rolled blank parts in the body area Dr. rer. nat. Lothar Harzheim, Dipl.-Ing. Manfred Saul, Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Enderich Adam Opel AG, Rüsselsheim |
| 9.40 - 10.20 | Impact of tailored blank lightweight technology on total body costs Dr.-Ing. Dominik Schwarz ThyssenKrupp Tailored Blanks GmbH, Duisburg |
| 10.20 - 10.50 | Coffee break |
| 10.50 - 11.30 | Aluminium-hybrid body design for SUV’s Ing. Bruno Götzinger Magna Steyr, Graz, (A) |
| 11.30 - 12.10 | New aluminium sheet materials for lightweight car body design Dr. rer. nat. Peter Furrer Novelis Technology AG, Neuhausen am Rheinfall (CH) |
| 12.10 - 13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 - 14.10 | Aluminium or steel? - Lightweight design in a vehicle hood Dipl.-Ing. Dipl.-Wirt. Ing. Roland Wohlecker, Cand. Ing. Leif Ickert Forschungsgesellschaft Kraftfahrwesen mbH Aachen |
| 14.10 - 14.50 | Composite space frame technology for GT series cars body structures Dipl.-Ing. Claudio Santoni, Dipl.-Ing. Alessio D’Alesio ATR Group, Colonnella (I) |
| 15.00 - 16.00 | Live vehicle crash at ika crash test facilities |
| 16.00 | End of course |
