This presentation was made at the NAFEMS Eastern European Seminar "Engineering Analysis & Simulation in the Automotive Industry" held on the 7th of November in Bucharest.

Automotive manufacturers and suppliers are constantly challenged with delivering innovative, safe, and dependable vehicles to market as efficiently as possible. As a result, engineering teams must discover, evaluate, and successfully implement leading-edge technology and methods to produce a reliable, effective outcome. Many of these efforts now come together under concepts such as Industry 4.0, Digital Twin, CAE Democratization, and Cloud Solutions. But what do these really mean for you, as a simulation specialist?

Resource Abstract

The design of bus frame structures is strongly regulated by the fatigue strength of the welded joints. The BSI 7608, the IWW and FKM 2012 methods are compared on a simple relevant example of a T-joint. An easily automatable defect tolerant model is proposed for the critical zone search on complex welded structures.