On 6th and 7th December 2006 the EUROMOTOR course "New Advances in Body Engineering" took place at the Institut für Kraftfahrwesen Aachen (ika).
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:
* Leightweight material
* Passive safety and pedestrian safety
* Optimization
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.
Downloads of the crash: Video1 (.avi) / Video2 (.avi)
| 8.30 - 9.00 | Registration |
| 9.00 - 9.10 | Introduction Dipl.-Ing. Peter Urban Institut für Kraftfahrwesen Aachen |
| 9.10 - 9.50 | Potential, applications and failure prediction of hot formed steels in crash Dr.-Ing. H. Lanzerath, A. Bach, O. Ghouati, R. Schilling, T. Hallfeldt Ford Forschungszentrum Aachen GmbH |
| 9.50 - 10.30 | Evaluation of forming history effects on the crash results of a steel bumper, combined with a benchmark of various FE codes and validation by means of forming and crash measurement Dr. ir. Rens Evers DAF Trucks N.V., Eindhoven (NL) |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00 - 11.40 | Aluminium front structures for a C-class vehicle Dipl.-Ing. Sven Faßbender Institut für Kraftfahrwesen Aachen |
| 11.40 - 12.20 | Assessment of structural composite fibre part in motor-vehicle body construction on the basis of a bonnet Dipl.-Ing. Wolfgang Dietz MAGNA STEYR Fahrzeugtechnik, Graz (A) |
| 12.20 - 13.40 | Lunch |
| 13.40 - 14.20 | The legal requirements on pedestrian protection and their transformation into practice Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Kinsky Adam Opel GmbH, Rüsselsheim |
| 14.20 - 15.00 | Optimized hood concepts for pedestrian protection phase 2 Dipl.-Ing. Rolf Peter Röttger ThyssenKrupp Steel AG, Duisburg |
| 15.00 - 15.20 | Coffee break |
| 15.20 - 16.00 | BioRID-II dummy model development in cooperation with the German automotive industry - a model to assess whiplash risks with LS-DYNA S. Stahlschmidt, B. Keding, U. Franz DYNAmore GmbH, Stuttgart |
| 16.00 - 17.00 | Demonstration of ika testing facilities |
| 19.30 | Evening event |
| 9.00 - 9.40 | Generalized shape and topology optimization: Recent development and application perspectives to automotive structures Prof. Dr.-Ing. Pierre Duysinx, Laurent Van Miegroet, Alain Remouchamp, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Claude Fleury, Univ. of Liége (B) |
| 9.40 - 10.20 | Shape optimisation taking into consideration the fatigue strength Dipl.-Ing. Benjamin Leblanc Altair Engineering GmbH, Böblingen |
| 10.20 - 10.50 | Coffee break |
| 10.50 - 11.30 | Possibility of application for magnesium die-cast in suspension strut housings Bayu Priyantoro M.Sc. Institut für Kraftfahrwesen Aachen |
| 11.30 - 12.10 | Usage of structural adhesives in the body shop assembly Dr. Olaf Lammerschop, Henkel Technologies, Düsseldorf |
| 12.10 - 13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 - 14.10 | Automotive laminated safety glass: Lightweight and enhancing passive safety Dr.-Ing. Jan Grünert, Dr.-Ing. Michael Labrot Saint-Gobain Sekurit Deutschland, Herzogenrath |
| 14.30 - 15.30 | Live vehicle crash at ika crash test facilities |
| 15.30 | End of course |
