Tass News

Platinum AVA Awards for Best Marketing Concept Advertisement Campaign and Best Safety Movie goes to Dutch Marketing Firm ElcaMedia.

The 2009 Platinum Awards for Best Marketing Concept Advertisement Campaign and Best Safety Movie have been awarded to ElcaMedia from the Netherlands which developed the advertisement and movie for the promotion of the latest version of Madymo software made by TASS.

The international AVA Awards recognize excellence in video production, tv commercials, news, and programs, as well as new media. Entries include film, analog and digital productions viewed in a wide variety of mediums - from movie screens to televisions to computers. Entrants include video and film production companies, web developers, advertising agencies, PR firms, corporate and government communication departments, producers, directors, editors, and shooters.

TASS congratulates ElcaMedia on winning this prestigious award, which is a confirmation by its peers of the outstanding work that ElcaMedia has done for us. The andvertisement and movie were created as part of a completely new brand identity that ElcaMedia developed for TASS. We value the ability of ElcaMedia to quickly interpret our needs and accurately translate them into an innovative concept that fits with the perception we want to achieve.

Product News

TNO has transferred the sales, marketing and distribution activities of their Delft-Tyre and PreScan software products and related services to TASS. TASS and TNO will jointly further develop these software products.

Delft-Tyre
Delft-Tyre provides an integrated solution for tire modeling in vehicle dynamics simulations, including tire testing and model parameter identification. Based on the renowned Pacejka Magic Formula, Delft-Tyre products have proven capabilities in the assessment and modelling of tire behaviour, from simple steady state to complex high frequency tire dynamics. One of the main advantages of our integrated tool chain is that the same tire model can be used for handling, comfort and durability simulations. Application areas include pasenger cars, motorcyle and aircraft landing gear.

PreScan
PreScan is a simulation environment for the design and validation of advanced driver assistance systems (e.g. ACC, LDW), collision mitigation systems, pre-crash sensing systems and active headlight applications. PreScan contains detailed models of all sensors used for automotive ADAS systems such as radar, laser, lidar and camera. Traffic scenarios are easily built through an intuitive user-interface for the definition of the environment (roads, trees, buildings), actors (cars, trucks, bikes, pedestrians), weather conditions (rain, snow, fog) and light circumstances. PreScan has interfaces with Matlab/Simulink, JAVA, CarSim, veDYNA, dSPACE and National Instruments.

If you would like to explore the advantages of DelftTyre or PreScan, we encourage you to contact your local TASS representative.

Product News

Solver highlights

MPP coupling

• up to 40% faster co-simulation with FE crash codes
• available for RADIOSS and PAM-CRASH

Fu-Chang foam material model

• new FE material model for foam modelling

ISO-MME output

• script to translate MADYMO output to ISO-MME format

PSM scaling

• script to scale prescribed structural motion input as a function of location and time

Contact

• Damping in characteristic-based MB-FE contact
• Initial penetration force correction for MB-FE contact 
• Multiple FE models in the same contact group for FE-FE contact

Dummy & Human model highlights

New models

• Hybrid-III 50th ellipsoid
• Hybrid-III 5th facet & ellipsoid
• Hybrid-III 95th facet & ellipsoid
• SID-IIs D facet
• Human 50th occupant with active control

Updated models

• Hybrid-III 50th facet
• BioRID-II facet & FE
• Hybrid-II ellipsoid (for aviation)
• Child dummy models
• Human 6yo occupant

All new and updated dummy models released with Quality Reports

Workspace highlights

XMADgic

• Graphical display of node and element lists
• Graphical selection of nodes and elements

Coupling Assistant

• Dedicated GUI for setting up co-simulations with FE crash codes
• Defining FE-FE constraints
• Fitting of MADYMO belts
• Importing multiple dummy models

Objective Rating

• Handling improvements through enhanced user interface

Protocol Rating

• Additional protocols supported: ECE-R94, ECE-R95, FMVSS-208, FMVSS-214, IIHS frontal & side impact

Download software or contact your local sales representative for more information.

Product News

MADYMO signal output in ISO-MME format

In follow up to user requests, TASS has released a MADYMO-2-ISO signal data conversion script. The MAD2ISO script is available free-of-charge and requires no license.

The MAD2ISO script is python-based and converts MADYMO time history output signal data into ISO/TS13499 (2003) consistent data format (also referred to as ISO-MME format). The ISO-MME data format is defined especially for storing crash test data and is widely used by crash and occupant safety simulation engineers.

The MAD2ISO script allows the user to select output signals from the MADYMO results files and assign ISO-codes to them. The script also includes predefined signal conversion lists for most frontal and side impact MADYMO dummy models. More information on script features, handling and software requirements can be found in the documentation released with it.

Download software or contact your local sales representative for more information.