Nick Reed, academy director at the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) in the UK, outlines the next steps that are vital to guaranteeing safe truck platooning trials later this year
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Ismail Benhayoun, Altair ProductDesign team manager, believes S&R simulation is becoming an ever more important and sought after field within NVH testing
A great number of things might be relevant. This is true in life, in law and in testing. But the rigor with which the ‘might be’ test is applied varies greatly
Providing guidance to raw talent fresh out the classroom can shape the trajectory of an engineer’s career, so use your powers of influence wisely
David Gil, a senior engineer at Critical Software, addresses the importance of independent software testing in ensuring the software of future vehicles is failsafe, and touches on the some of the lessons to be learned from industries like aerospace
Jane Burston, founder of the UK’s Centre for Carbon Measurement, which measures impacts on the environment and encourages the take-up of low carbon technologies, believes the UK can meet its climate targets agreed at COP21 and that new CO? emission lowering technologies the center has identified will play a big part in this
Simulation specialist Ales Alajbegovic addresses the issue of thermal management in EVs in the context of Exa Corporation’s software, which can be used to quickly and accurately simulate HVAC in vehicles
Martyn Cleaver at Forward Industrial, a manufacturer of fasteners and fixings, gives his opinion on the accuracy and efficiency of using machine vision methods, such as those adopted in Keyence machines, for quality inspection
The European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) attempts to set the record straight on a number of misconceptions related to emissions testing
Joseph A Van Wanzeele, who has been a lab and road test engineer for 13 years, agrees that physical test results are invaluable, particularly for detecting failure nodes