Approaches to testing vehicle passive safety based on a virtual test bench and a digital twin

Abstract

The article presents the results of the implementation of work in the field of creating virtual test benches for testing vehicle passive safety in the event of an impact. A number of results obtained on the basis of implemented virtual platforms and benches are given. The advanced technologies in the field of creating virtual benches and digital twins are also shown. The illustrations on the problems of testing A-pillars and the vehicle roof, including the cases of a frontal impact are given. Certain considerations are given on the general concept of digital design based on digital twins and virtual test benches. The critical impact on the adequacy of the digital twin and the benches and platforms built on its basis is highlighted. The accuracy and convergence of the mathematical model of the designed product and the physical processes occurring in it, the used numerical methods of computer simulation, finite element models and their optimization is pointed out.