Category: Project in focus

The digital human model IPS IMMA takes a short break in the vehicle. EMMA helps to answer the question of how to assess comfort under dynamic driving manoeuvres even in such relaxed postures.

Kaiserslautern. EMMA4Drive – Dynamic Human Model for More Safety and Comfort in Autonomous Vehicles

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With the EMMA4Drive project, our researchers of the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM are further developing the dynamic human model EMMA for use in fully or partially autonomous driving vehicles.

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Improved Fiber Distribution Increases Thermal Insulation – Project »Oho«: Optimization of Wood-Fiber Based Insulation Materials

Kaiserslautern. Improved Fiber Distribution Increases Thermal Insulation

ECMI Nodes, Featured, Kaiserslautern, Project in focus

Together with four partners, our researchers at the Fraunhofer ITWM are investigating the effects of fibre distribution in wood-based insulation materials in the project »Oho: Optimization of Wood-Fibre Based Insulation Materials« with the aim of improving thermal insulation. The aim is to achieve a thermal conductivity of less than 35 W/K. The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

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Thinking Ahead to Electromobility: Lightweight Construction and Ecological Design for Electric Vehicl

Kaiserslautern. Lightweight Construction and Ecological Design for Electric Vehicles

ECMI Nodes, Featured, Kaiserslautern, Project in focus

ALMA Project’s novel lightweight, efficient and sustainable Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) structure for passenger cars promises major strides in the EU’s green road transport transition away from fossil fuels. The ALMA BEV body-in-white (BiW) is 22 percent lighter than the baseline design, resulting in a 24 percent reduction in carbon emissions for the BiW and a corresponding 9 percent reduction for the entire car over the vehicle’s entire service life.

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