Accurate Cabin Predictions - Modeling Real Automotive Parts Replaces Cost and Time-Consuming Physical Testing
Trèves Products Services & Innovation in France is one of the leading Tier-1 suppliers of noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) reduction parts, providing full sound packages for the trunk, body, interior, and powertrain. To best meet their customer expectations, where possible, Trèves reduces part design and lead time by replacing expensive and time-consuming physical testing with numerical modeling. Traditionally, such models need real parts to account for their multi-layer arrangement and varying thickness, with readily available input parameters. They also need to be comprehensive in scope and easy to implement.
Available via the Altair Partner Alliance (APA), AlphaCell from Matelys-Research Lab offers several features that meets Trèves’ needs, and have helped position Trèves to provide robust solutions to OEMs in order to achieve the next generation of pass-by noise limits.
Customer Stories
The Sound of Silence - Acoustic Analysis of a Rail Carriage Bellow using Product Alphacell
Noise reduction is an important issue when developing products and components for railway applications. Recently, Ultimate Europe had to perform an acoustic analysis of a rail carriage bellow. In addition to its own broad portfolio of simulation solutions, Altair offers a wide selection of complementary software tools through the Altair Partner Alliance (APA). With Altair’s unique, flexible licensing model customers have access to these solutions at no additional costs. Altair Units allowed Ultimate to leverage APA products and access the functionalities of AlphaCell to predict the acoustic response of the bellow. Results included reduced run time, a decrease in model set up time, and increased combined metric correlation.
Customer Stories
Lightweighting With Laminate Composites: Vibro-Acoustic Design Using AlphaCell
Laminate composites are often the answer to ever increasing lightweighting demands. While significant advances were made regarding mechanical strength, there remain a number of challenges regarding their vibro-acoustic properties. Composites are indeed lighter and stiffer, which as a result, tends to decrease their sound insulation properties at critical audible frequencies. One thus needs a thorough design of the structure to avoid acoustic comfort failure. During this webinar, a unique approach to predict the vibro-acoustic response of laminate composites will be presented. Supported by short computational times and high fidelity predictions, this new feature of AlphaCell enables to optimize the design at an early stage of the project. In addition to accurate predictions, this model further enables to reduce the computational cost in FE analyzes by providing material cards with condensed properties.
Presenter: François-Xavier Bécot | Director and Executive Co-Manager, Matelys
Featuring AlphaCell by Matelys, available through the Altair Partner Alliance.
Webinars
The Future of NVH Simulations
François-Xavier Bécot from MATELYS Research Lab, an APA partner, discusses the future of NVH simulations.
Testimonial
AlphaCell User Testimonials
See what users have to say about their experience with AlphaCell.
Testimonial
Experience the Sound of Your Future EV Before it is Built
Achieving the targeted brand image in a short development cycle time with minimal or zero prototypes is a major challenge faced by EV companies. To overcome this challenge, Altair, HBK and Romax have jointly developed a simulation driven process coupled with capabilities to virtually experience the noise and vibration characteristics, giving engineers a way to obtain real time performance feedbacks as the vehicle is being developed.
This joint presentation on the proposed NVH development process covers a wide range of topics, including benchmarking, target setting, full vehicle and motor gearbox simulation loadcases, troubleshooting, optimization and stochastic analysis, and playback of simulation results for subjective evaluations, with a number of new technologies representing the global best practice in sound and vibration design and development. Join us to explore ways to control the sound and vibration characteristics of the vehicle, achieve the right sound, and avoid common NVH pitfalls, while accelerating time to market utilizing and experiencing virtual NVH prototypes.
Conference Presentations
Matelys Showcase Video
AlphaCell for quick and accurate sound package design
Testimonial
Vibro-Acoustic Response of Multi-Layer Systems: Creating a Condensed Model to Reduce Mesh Size and Calculation Time
A possible way of reducing the calculation time and mesh size in vibro acoustic response is to condense the description of multi-layer plates into a single, equivalent plate representation. The plate is then modeled using frequency dependent parameters in visco-elastic models. The webinar will present several representations of this approach applied to constrained layers, multi-layer plates as well as ribbed and stiffened plates.
Webinars
Auralization Features of AlphaCell - Listening to the Efficiency of the Materials
The examples presented during the webinar will cover the cases of sound absorption and sound transmission.
Webinars
Top Use Cases: AlphaCell
Presentation introducing a few of the top use cases for the NVH software, AlphaCell.
Use Cases
Quieter Products Using OptiStruct & AlphaCell: The Right Effort with the Right Tool
This webinar will present the basics of porous material modeling and user key benefits of a combined usage of OptiStruct and AlphaCell. Please note: You will need to login to Altair Connect to view this recording.
Webinars
AlphaCell: Transfer Matrix Method vs Finite Element Method
Short technical demo of AlphaCell for NVH analysis regarding two separate methods of sound transmission loss computations.
Quick Start
Webinar: Altair’s Solutions for Full-Vehicle NVH Analysis
An important factor in improving vehicle quality and perception is guided by how vehicles are designed for noise, vibration and harshness, making NVH an important domain for the automotive industry. Altair and its Alliance Partners offer a complete solution for automotive NVH applications.
In this 45-minute webinar, we will give an overview of problems faced in the automotive industry for NVH analysis and how HyperWorks and Altair’s Partner technologies help address these issues, providing a complete solution that spans from modeling and assembly to analysis, diagnostic and optimization.
Presenters:
Jianmin Guan, Director, Vibration and Acoustics Solutions, Altair
Vijay Ambarisha, Senior Project Engineer, ANSOL
Jerry Manning, President, Cambridge Collaborative
Francois-Xavier Becot, Co-manager, Matelys
Webinars
AlphaCell Datasheet
Overview of key features and benefits of using AlphaCell to solve NVH problems.
Brochures