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Crash and Safety
Tools used for crash and safety analysis.
Safety Tools
Use the Safety ribbon to access crash and safety post-processing tools.
Vehicle Safety Tools
The Vehicle Safety Tools (VST) is a collection of over 200 macros, Templex functions, and external functions for use by a vehicle safety engineer.
MPDB Tool
The MPDB tool offers a complete automated post processing solution of the MPDB Frontal Compatibility Assessment load case, for Radioss and LS-DYNA output files. It also has the capability to do the MPDB compatibility assessment for physical test data (scanned data) written out in STL format.
MPDB Tool Results

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Crash and Safety
Tools used for crash and safety analysis.
- Dummy Positioning
  Position a dummy model using the Dummy Browser.
- Seat Mechanism
  Create and articulate a kinematic mechanism based on FE mesh using the Mechanism Browser.
- Seatbelt System
  Use the Seatbelt Browser to create a complete seatbelt system.
- Seat Deformation
- Barrier Positioner
  Use the Barrier Positioner tool to automatically get the impact barrier into position, based on the selected crash regulation.
- Bus Rollover
  Use the Bus Rollover tool for the automatic recognition of the unstable position of the bus, the automatic recognition of the impact position of the bus, and the automatic creation of loadcase for impact simulation.
- Ejection Mitigation
  Use the Ejection Mitigation (EM) tool for the automatic target marking according to FMVSS-226 rules, automatic positioning of the headform impactor, and the automatic export of ready-to-run solver decks for all of the selected impact locations.
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  Use the IP Impact tools to automatically calculate the instrument panel (IP) testing area according to the regulations FMVSS201 and ECE-R21, position the headform impactor, and export ready-to-run solver decks for all the selected impact locations.
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  - Vehicle Safety Tools
    The Vehicle Safety Tools (VST) is a collection of over 200 macros, Templex functions, and external functions for use by a vehicle safety engineer.
    - Math
      Allows you to perform basic math operations on one, two, or three curves at a time.
    - Duration Macro
      The duration macro allows you to calculate the continuous duration for one or more curves.
    - Filter
      Contains curve filtering functions, including Butterworth, FIR, and a new SAE 1995 that are not available to regular HyperGraph users.
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    - IIHS Intrusion Templates
      The Vehicle Safety Tools preference file contains templates to plot IIHS front intrusion and IIHS side structure intrusion plots for Radioss and LS-DYNA files.
    - Pedestrian Impact
      The Pedestrian Impact tool facilitates the post-processing of pedestrian analysis.
    - Instrument Panel
      The Instrumental Panel tool facilitates the post-processing of the FMVSS201 and ECE-R21 analysis.
    - Compare Time History
      The Compare Time History diagnostic tool consists of two pages. On the first page, the input data files, such as plot, result, and FE files, are selected. Page two contains the data needed to compare the reference files and comparison files.
    - Relative Displacement
      Allows you to transform vector results from a time history or animation result files according to a coordinate system defined by three nodes from the same result file.
    - MPDB Tool
      The MPDB tool offers a complete automated post processing solution of the MPDB Frontal Compatibility Assessment load case, for Radioss and LS-DYNA output files. It also has the capability to do the MPDB compatibility assessment for physical test data (scanned data) written out in STL format.
- Altair Safety Report Manager
  The Altair Safety Report Manager (ASRM) is a fully customizable automatic report generation utility for crash and safety regulations.
Airbag
Use airbag folder utilities and export a resulting airbag in a Radioss deck.
Aerospace
Essential utility tools developed using HyperMesh-Tcl.
Aeroelasticity
Import an aeroelastic finite element model with Nastran Bulk Data format.
Certification
Framework to plug certification methods to assess margin of safety from the model and result information.
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MPDB Tool Results

The MPDB Tool automatically processes the Standard Deviation on the barrier, based on the intrusion calculations. An automatic PPT report is generated with the following slides.

Figure 1. Standard Deviation Calculation

Occupant Loading Criterion Plot:

Figure 2.

Modifier Plot:

Figure 3.

Additionally, you can request to display the barrier deformation (intrusion contour) on the reference plate as a grid projection. A new option SD Grid Pattern is included under the settings dialog in the MPDB GUI (

).

Figure 4.

If the above option is turned ON, then a new slide is included in the final PPT report as shown below.

Figure 5.

Furthermore, in the “Output Directory” specified in the dialog, the following files are exported automatically by the tool:

Output.key or output_0000.rad: Solver input file containing the deformed shape of the barrier at the selected time step.
outputreference_plate.key or outputreference_0000.rad: Solver input file containing the reference plate defining the Grid for the projection calculation.
export_barrier_reference.key or export_barrier_reference_0000.rad: Solver input file containing the deformed shape of the barrier at the selected time step and the GRID used for the projection calculation.
outputprojection.hwascii: ASCII results file containing the nodal or elemental projection values along with their entity IDs.
MPDB_session_file.mvw: Session file with results.
Bottoming_Out_Data.csv: Text file containing bottoming out data (if a bottoming out scenario is found) - node IDs and their corresponding projection values within a 40mm x 40mm area.
*.pptx: Automatic PPT report generated by MPDB tool containing Standard deviation, OLC and modifier plots.