MADYMO User's Meeting

ADVEA runs a semi-annual User's Meeting for MADYMO. The last event was held on the 28th of November 2007 and was our most successful event in recent times attracting sponsorship and attendance from all our MADYMO customers.

TASS was represented at the 2007 UM by longtime MADYMO user, and now back-office manager, Frank Schoenmakers.

Ryan Adams (ADVEA) and Frank Schoenmakers (TASS)
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MADYMO User's Meeting

The previous MADYMO User's Meeting was on the 29th of November, 2005. The brochure and some papers can be downloaded below.

MADYMO

Advea is the Australian agency for the TNO Automotive software package MADYMO. We provide MADYMO contractors to companies such as Autoliv, FORD and General Motors Holden. We also do in-house contracting work for smaller companies.

MADYMO is a CAE package used to simulate the dynamic behavior of mechanical systems such as automotive crashes for the purpose of assessing structural behavior and occupant safety.

MADYMO is used for:

• Accident reconstruction
• Aircraft and helicopter safety
• Automotive crash safety
• Biomechanical research
• Motorcycle safety
• Train safety
• Truck & bus safety
• Vehicle handling

A facet dummy crash model
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Videos

The following short media clips show some MADYMO simulations.

Comparison of airbag deployment and MADYMO simulation

Comparison of an airbag push test and MADYMO simulation

Gas velocity model of an airbag simulation with MADYMO

Benefits

MADYMO allows users to design and optimize occupant safety systems efficiently, quickly and cost-effectively. It is the worldwide standard for occupant safety analysis. It is used extensively in industrial engineering, design offices, research laboratories and technical universities.

MADYMO has proven its outstanding capabilities through a wide range of applications. It produces results which are supported by verification studies using experimental data.

A wide range of crash dummy models are available, all highly realistic and validated with live human as well as cadaver testing.

Multibody and Finite Element techniques which can be used separately or together, giving the user the freedom to create a wide variety of restraint systems. Multibody techniques allow fast prototype development and higher quality Finite Element models can be used for detailed modelling of structural components.

MADYMO has a wide range of supporting software for editing and manipulating input decks, as well as Design of Experiments (DOE) and a 'Gasflow' module for very accurate airbag simulations.

A seat buttocks pressure model

TNO Automotive

TNO Automotive provides a comprehensive range of research, development and engineering services and products to the automotive industry, government agencies and other organizations throughout the world.

TNO Automotive is part of the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), an independent contract R&D company, with fourteen specialist research institutes and a highly professional workforce totaling more than 4800.

TNO-MADYMO offices are located in the Netherlands, Japan, USA, UK, Australia and Korea.

For more information, visit the TNO-MADYMO website at http://www.automotive.tno.nl/