Software & Simulation

Software & Simulation from One Source by Magna Powertrain Center Steyr

Global OEMs and new entrants trust Magna's advanced software solutions to enhance vehicle and powertrain development, ensuring efficient and cost-effective production processes.

Magna offers modular software solutions for calculation and simulation in vehicle and powertrain development, as well as analysis of production influences. Our software solutions enable customers to execute development tasks and plan production processes more efficiently and cost-effectively.

Magna Powertrain’s software products include FEMFAT, KULI, FEMFAT MELCOM, FEMFAT LAB, MAMBA, and MNOISE.

These solutions empower engineers to design and develop lightweight, environmentally friendly vehicles and engines, reducing fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. As a world leader in the automotive industry, Magna provides unique software solutions that support our commitment to innovation and sustainability.

Strength & Durability

  • Large range of simulations from standard to high end Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and fatigue assessment
  • Passenger cars, LCV to HD trucks, busses, construction and special vehicles, railway structures
  • Specimen or component hardware tests and corresponding material database set up
  • Powertrain, body, frame and chassis simulations
  • Loadings from standards, road load data, MBS simulations or CFD
  • New materials assessment like elastomer, short-fiber reinforced plastics, laminates
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Example of Typical Analysis

  • Thermal and mechanical analysis incl. heat transfer and radiation of ICE and transmissions
  • eDrive simulations: rotor, water jacket, inverter
  • Fatigue assessment (LCF, TMF, HCF)
  • Frame, add-on parts, steering and suspension systems
  • Body stiffness, strength and fatigue assessments
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Component Optimization & Weight Reduction

  • Shape, topology and material optimization

Joint Assessment

  • Spot welds, self-piercing rivets, seam welds, laser welds, capacitor discharge weldings

Crash Simulation for Truck Cabs

  • Certified for ECE R29 Simulation
  • Simulation of ECE R14 and ECE R17
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NVH & Vibration Fatigue

New Mobility

  • Acoustic analysis of hybrid- and electric-drives with MNOISE
  • Inverter acoustic and vibration fatigue of PCB solder joints

Combustion Engine & Gearbox

  • Crank train dynamics for fatigue and acoustics
  • Structure and air borne noise of engine-transmission unit and gearbox
  • Vibration fatigue of powertrain components
  • Vehicle integration analysis

Truck Cabin & Car Body

  • Dynamic evaluation of trimmed body
  • Noise and vibration transfer functions
  • Interior noise and vibration from powertrain or road excitations
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Vehicle Dynamics

Ride & Handling Analysis

  • Suspension and steering kinematics
  • Parameter tuning for ride and handling improvement
  • Sophisticated leaf spring model including friction characteristics with MAMBA

Road & Powertrain Vibration Analysis

  • Road and tire interaction
  • Suspension bushing tuning
  • Powertrain run-up and idle simulation
  • Noise and vibration comfort for passengers

Load Data Generation for Vehicle Components

  • Fatigue test rig layout evaluation and improvement
  • Virtual iteration of measured road loads using FEMFAT LAB vi
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CFD Simulation for Full Vehicle Design Improvement

  • Drag coefficient and fuel consumption reduction
  • Cabin comfort evaluations
  • Soiling
  • De-Icing of front and side screen
  • Soiling of cabin
  • Cooling package integration
  • Heat protection of underhood components
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Virtual Product Development using CFD Simulation

  • Oil flow distributions for lubrication and cooling investigations
  • Temperature hot spot investigations of sensible components
  • Design optimization with respect to pressure drop and temperature
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Full Vehicle System Simulation

  • Powertrain cooling
  • HVAC strategy optimization for EVs
  • Energy management optimization and temperature
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Contact

Engineering Center Steyr GmbH & Co KG
Steyrer Straße 32
4300 St. Valentin
Austria

Office: +43 7435 501 0
Email: info.valentin.mpt@magna.com