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PROVIDING BAC LTD VIRTUAL ENGINEERING EXPERTISE “ON DEMAND”
Creating easy to use, remote access virtual engineering processes for BAC Ltd to enhance and steer rapid virtual testing of vehicle components, making use of the VEC Engineering Cloud.
A novel technology solution developed by the
Virtual Engineering Centre (VEC), accessible
through the VEC “expert on demand”
Engineering Cloud web portal, was deployed
to support the evaluation and understanding
of vehicle attributes for BAC Ltd and enhance
their vehicle development programme.
THE CHALLENGELiverpool based, niche vehicle manufacturer
Briggs Automotive Company Ltd (BAC),
developer of the road legal single seat
supercar MONO, wanted to increase its
flexibility and accessibility to CAE expertise,
sophisticated software and computing
resources in order to evolve vehicle’s
attributes and gain a competitive market edge.
The aim was to enable BAC to access “on
demand” virtual testing processes helping
them to accelerate the adoption of new
components and designs.
THE SOLUTIONThe VEC developed an advanced and
modularized workflow for assessing the
bending and torsional stiffness of the MONO
chassis. Using the VEC Engineering Cloud,
different variants of the chassis were created
and set-up for structural analysis through
single runs or design explorations, taking into
account suggestions from CAD engineers
as well as material specifications from the
chassis supplier. The submission of Finite
Element Analyses (FEA) to High Performance
Computing facilities was a user-friendly
“one-click” process. The powerful FE solver
DYNAMIS from DTECH was used, providing
various result representations, including
format for VR environments, enabling the
interpretation of the results in 1:1 scale.
Remote virtual engineering testing was
enabled through the extensive and seamless
access to the HPC facilities of the Hartree
Centre at the STFC, Daresbury Laboratory.
THE BENEFITSThe VEC provided BAC with a platform for
collaboration throughout their supply chain
and enabled them to co-design Engineering
Services tailored to their needs using multi-
disciplinary expertise, high fidelity virtual
prototypes and advanced workflows. This
access to “expertise on demand” reduces
design ‘bottlenecks’ and enables organisations
such as BAC greater flexibility and speed to
innovate their products. The VEC Engineering
Cloud provides easy-to-use, non-expert access
to HPC accessible from any internet enabled
computer/tablet or laptop and common
access to software “on demand”, providing
readily accessible resources beyond the
existing capacity of an organisation.
WORK WITH USThe Virtual Engineering Centre (VEC) delivers innovative solutions to industry through the exploitation of academic research and the latest scientific and technology infrastructure. Enhancing capability through Virtual Innovation, the VEC is the UK’s leading centre of Virtual Engineering technology integration for industrial and commercial applications.
A collaboration between the University
of Liverpool and the Hartree Centre,
Science and Technology Facilities Council
(STFC) Daresbury Laboratory, the VEC
delivers advanced modelling, simulation
and visualisation solutions and ease
of access to the UK’s most powerful
supercomputing facilities to enable
business growth and competitiveness.
For more information about how your
organisation could benefit from working
with the Virtual Engineering Centre:
+44 (0)1925 864853
virtualengineeringcentre.com