Altair Partner Alliance adds Brüel & Kjær to their ranks for automotive NVH.
Altair has added noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) specialists Brüel & Kjær to the Altair Partner Alliance (APA). This will bring the NVH CAE tool Insight+ to HyperWorks users.
Insight+ works on a vehicle’s system-level scale to assess, test and evaluate NVH sources and transfer functions. The software will consider the environment and the vehicle’s interactions when assessing NVH. The system even allows engineers to listen to the potential sounds made by the vehicle and rank the designs based on their assessments.
The Insight+ software will be able to take into consideration CAE data and test data to help engineers assess the NVH profile produced by their vehicle’s designs. Though targeted for the automotive industry, Insight+ can be used to assess any vehicle.
“The combination of Altair’s simulation tools and the capabilities in Brüel & Kjær’s solutions creates an effective environment for subjective evaluation of vehicle NVH early in the vehicle design process,” said Alun Crewe, vice president of strategic marketing at Brüel & Kjær.
“CAE analysts, NVH evaluation teams and other decision makers, who may not be NVH experts, will be able to evaluate NVH design proposals at virtual prototype stage in the context of driving the final product,” added Crewe. “This enables improved, value-based decision making, reduces the number of physical prototypes, ensures ‘right first time’ engineering and reduces time to market.”
“Altair is thrilled to be adding Brüel & Kjær’s software to its NVH portfolio,” said David Mason, vice president of global automotive at Altair. “The powerful capability of Insight+ to evaluate NVH testing and simulation data together, especially listening to the result, will enhance our customers’ ability to make critical decisions earlier in the design process.”
HyperWorks isn’t the only simulation platform that offers users access to Brüel & Kjær’s NVH technology. To read up on how SIMULIA partnered with the NVH specialists, read this article.
