Enhancing Vehicle Safety Assessments through Advanced Virtual Testing Crashworthiness with the aid of ANSA and META

The automotive industry is continually evolving to meet stringent safety standards and enhance occupant protection in crash scenarios. With Euro NCAP supplementing far-side impact testing with Virtual Testing Crashworthiness (VTC) starting in 2024, real tests and CAE simulations come closer more than ever. The VTC protocol mandates the use of simulation and physical test data to robustly evaluate far-side impact protection, requiring detailed compliance with validation and quality criteria, as well as specific data formatting for submission. Consequently apart from far-side more protocols will be implemented in the virtual testing raising more challenges to the safety engineers. As a result there is an increasing need for efficient tools that streamline the assessment process offering ‘know how’ of the different protocols and simultaneously minimize the human interaction with the aid of automation.