Post Graduate Program in Design for Crashworthiness and Analysis by Skill Lync: Fee, Duration, How to Apply

Quick Facts

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Medium of instructions English	Mode of learning Self study	Mode of Delivery Video and Text Based

Course overview

The ‘Post Graduate Program in Design for Crashworthiness and Analysis’ online course is offered by the online education provider Skill Lync and the course study is about the crashworthiness, mechanisms, safety regulation and designing involved in automotive engineering. The online programme scheduled for eight months helps the learners gain knowledge about the techniques associated with the protection capacity of vehicles and the simulation tools used for designing and crash testing. For the increased usage of vehicles, it is necessary to understand the crashworthiness and the design involved in creating vehicle designs considering the factors such as accident triggering elements, its influence on passengers, safety guidelines and market demand.

This ‘Post Graduate Program in Design for Crashworthiness and Analysis’ online certification programme assists the learners in gaining technical and industrial knowledge through the experiential learning process of the various courses available in the programme. The experimental projects develop the practical knowledge of the participants to excel in their respective domains.

Course and certificate fees

The ‘Master's in Design for Crashworthiness and Analysis’ online training is offered in three different access versions and the fee details are specific to the version and the total fee is Rs 2,75,000/-

Master's in Design for Crashworthiness and Analysis fee structure

Basic	9 months access	Rs. 15000/month for 10 months
Pro	18 months access	Rs. 20000/month for 10 months
Premium	Lifetime access	Rs. 25000/month for 10 months

certificate availability

Yes

certificate providing authority

Skill Lync

Who it is for

The Post Graduate Program in Design for Crashworthiness and Analysis helps the simulation engineers improve their expertise in the automotive industry skills and establish a successful career.

Eligibility criteria

Certificate qualifying details

Skill Lync issues merit certificates to students who score among the top five of the class and course completion certificates to every participant on the ‘Master's in Design for Crashworthiness and Analysis’ online programme

What you will learn

Designing skills Knowledge of physics Knowledge of engineering

The Post Graduate Program in Design for Crashworthiness and Analysis certification course helps the students gain knowledge in the field of engineering and physics. This course provides the fundamentals of finite element analysis which includes the implicit and explicit FEA. The participants are equipped with the knowledge of automation safety standards and designing for crashes with score calculation. The students will get an opportunity to know about the crashworthiness analysis done with hypermesh or radios. The learners get to experiment with the software LS DYNA while working with structural mechanics. The safety systems are analysed that will be favorable for a range of specific states in FEM. The candidate will learn to perform structural crash modeling using ANSA, LS DYNA, and Metapost in the ‘Master's in Design for Crashworthiness and Analysis’ online course.

The syllabus

Course 1: FEA Super Course - Refresher

Week 01 - Fundamentals

Strength of materials
- Stress, Pressure, Strain
- Lateral Strain - Why does it happen
- Poisson’s Ratio - Practical Application
- Shear
- Modulus of Rigidity
- Moment of Inertia
- Kinetic Energy, Rotational Kinetic Energy
- Continuity equation
- Shear Force and Bending Moment
- Beams and Truss - Theory and Problems
- Materials and it is Mechanical Properties
- Stress and Strain Curves
- Theory of Failures
- Vibration
Finite Element Analysis
- FEA - Significance and Scope
- Applications in Various Industries - Examples
- Types of Analysis
- Implicit and Explicit - An Overview
- Degree of Freedom
- Governing Equations
- Shape Functions
- Gaussian Quadrature
- Boundary Conditions
- FEA Crash Course - Tool-Based Questions

Week 02 - ANSA Part 1

Introduction and GUI in ANSA
- Tool knowledge in ANSA
- Basics of FEA
- What is Meshing?
- Significance of Meshing
- Elemental Errors
- Types of Elements in Meshing
- How to choose and When to choose elements
Midsurfacing and Methods of Meshing
- Types of Midsurfacing Techniques
- Rearrangement of Construction lines
- Different meshing strategies
- Manual and Auto Meshing in sheet metal component
Mesh Quality improvement
- Various different quality criteria and working with them in ANSA
Tool Practice

Week 03 - ANSA Part 2

Mesh Evaluation
- Things to remember for obtaining a good mesh
- Important checks to perform
Time Management in ANSA
- Various strategies for Time management while working on the component
- Tips and Tricks on How to approach a general Tool test
Tool Practice

Week 04 - HyperMesh Part 1

Introduction
- HyperMesh - Introduction
Meshing in HM
- Meshing Fundamental
- Mid Surface extraction methods
- Meshing methods for mesh flow
- Quality criteria - Checks and fixes
- Tool Test approach
Mesh Improvisation
- Various different quality criteria and working with them in HyperMesh
Evaluating FE
- Things to remember for obtaining a good mesh
- Important checks to perform
Tool Practice

Week 05 - HyperMesh Part 2

Time Management
- Various strategies for Time management while working on the component
- Tips and Tricks on How to approach a general Tool test
Tool Practice

Course 2: Preprocessor for Structural Analysis using ANSA

Week 01 & 02 - Introduction to ANSA GUI and Tools

Introduction to FEA
ANSA GUI
Geometric Tools and Topology Cleanup
Types of CAE Process Tools for Structural CAE
Types of Elements
Different Tools used in TOPO Deck

Week 03 - Manual Mid-surfacing, 2D Meshing and Quality Criteria

Manual mid surfacing for sheet metal components
2D meshing on sheet metal components
Quality checkup and taking measures to achieve quality
Introduction to different tools used in mesh deck
Revising the basic commands
Basic commands used in TOPO and MESH deck
Practice model provided

Week 04 - Manual Mid-surfacing - Plastic Trims and Cast Parts

Manual mid-surfacing for plastic trim components & cast parts
2D meshing, quality checkup
Different tools used in mesh deck

Week 05 - Solid Meshing(Tetra & Hexa)

Establishing solid (Tetra) meshing on 2 different components
- Solid (Tetra) meshing
- 3D meshing quality criteria
- Volume mesh deck
Introduction to solid (Hexa) meshing
- Solid (Hexa) meshing
- Volume mesh deck

Week 06 - Connections (Seat and Door)

Different types of connectors such as:
- Two Nodes RBE2
- Cluster RBE2
- RBE2-CBUSH-RBE2
- RBE2-HEXA-RBE2
- Nut and Bolt representation
- Seam weld data representation
Different operations such as:
- Converting and realizing operations
- Connection manager operations
- Assigning mass to a node

Week 07 - Introduction to Batch Meshing/Casting

Introduction to casting & batch meshing operations
Auto mid-surfacing and meshing by using casting and skin methods

Week 08 - Introduction to Morphing Basics

Direct morphing
Box morphing
Hatches
Morphing in FE model
Morphing in CAD geometry

Course 3: HyperMesh for FEA Plastic and Sheet Metal Applications

Week 01-Basics of FEA

The math behind FEA
5Ws of Finite Element Analysis
Types of engineering problem-solving methods
CAE process types
Model setup

Week 02-Introduction to HyperMesh GUI

Introduction to the Geometric Tool and the Tools Menu
Basic geometric tools
Geometry cleanups (includes auto cleanup)
Midsurface creation

Week 03-Key Geometric Tools

Geometry cleanup criteria files
MNode's creation & node editing
Point edit
Edge edit

Week 04-1D Meshing

5Masses, Bar, Rod, Rigid, RBE3, Springs, Gaps
Connectors, HYPER BEAM, Linemesh, Linear 1D
Edit, Element, Split, Replace, and Detach
Order change, configuration edit, and element type

Week 05-Geometry Cleanup and Midsurface

Surface clean up
Midsurface generation
Handling distorted surfaces

Week 06-2D Meshing Introduction and Examples

Introduction to 2D meshing
2D basic tools
Mesh flow
Handling tria element

Week 07-Quality Criteria

1D element quality check
2D element quality check
Understanding the quality parameters for 2D meshing

Week 08-Advance 2D Meshing

Manual mid-surface
Handling symmetric geometry
Free-edge checks
Normals check

Week 09-3D Meshing

Hexa meshing
Tetra meshing
Different methods of tetra mesh generation
3D element quality check

Week 10-Connectors

Seam weld
Spot weld
Bolt connection
Spring element
Adhesive modelling-HEXA

Week 11-Batch Meshing

Understand quality parameter and criteria files
Optimizing these files according to the requirement.

Week 12-Morphing Techniques and Macro Generation

Morph constraints
Morph volumes
Map to geometry
Basic macro generation using TCL commands

Course 4: LS-DYNA for Structural Mechanics/FEA

Week 01 - FEA Basics and Simulations

Introduction to FEA
Type of FE Simulation
Explicit and Implicit mathematical definition

Week 02 - LS-PREPOST Deep Dive

Brief about the Pre-Process
Hands-on training on the LS-DYNA User Manual
Running an example
Post-processing the results
Input and output files in LS-DYNA
Keywords and input text editing
Multiple RUNs on the same file in the same folder
Hands-on with the output files (ASCII output) in the text editor.
Exploring binary and ASCII options in database keywords
Node keyword – Brief
Part keyword – Brief
Materials
Section
Control cards – default parameters
Contact
LS-PrePost
Building the solver deck for a simulation (Plate Model)
Post-processing the results
Modeling the cube under pressure
Modeling the tensile stress of a specimen

Week 03 - Keywords, Timestep and more

Brief on keywords
Brief on *INCLUDE keyword
Insight of NHTSA
Hourglass energy
Materials introduction
Elasto-plastic material and various cards
Material testing
Calculation method for Young’s Modulus
Power law
Verification
Deploy
Timestep basics
Control Card
Control Timestep
Control Termination
Control Shell
Control Solid
Control Hourglass
Control Energy
Control Contact
Control Accuracy
Boundary Condition
Constrain
Specifying output files
Understanding contacts
Various types of contacts

Week 04 - LS-PrePost GUI and Weld Modelling

LS-PrePost GUI
LS-DYNA GUI application
Node and element selection
Application crash, metal forming
Element direction align
Post-processing
Node intrusion depending on the regulation
Introduction to Spot-Weld in LS-DYNA
Hands-on practice on Spot-Welds
Solving a simple problem to learn the Spot-Welds and then Post-Processing it.
Modeling Spot-Weld using Spot-Weld constraint card.
Modeling Spot-Weld using Spot-Weld generalize constrain card
Debugging Spot-Weld
Spot-Welds modeling using solid elements
Introduction to Cross-Section
Modeling a Cross-Section
Application of Cross-Section

Week 05 - Implicit Simulations

Introduction to implicit problems
Implicit and explicit comparisons
Memory in LS-DYNA
In core/out-of-core
Double precision and MPP.
The tensile test-simple implicit problem
Timestep in implicit problems.
Convergence in implicit.
Implicit keywords
Implicit and explicit switching
Timestep adjusting
Control-implicit-solver (Non-linear solver)
The implicit problem, hands-on with a bumper demonstration
Power law plasticity
MORTAR contact
MORTAR contact theory
SOFT card - intro
Implicit loading
Element formulation for implicit analysis
Overview of the pedestrian impact simulation
Understanding the HIC value
HIC calculation - LS-PrePost
Understanding *INCLUDE, *INCLUDE_TRANSFORM,*DEFINE_TRANSFORMATION

Week 06 - LS-DYNA Best Practices & Types of Analyses

Best Practices in LS-DYNA
Setting up the model
How to decide the type of analysis (static, quasi-static, or dynamic)
Dealing with the coupled problem
Deciding the ELFORM for the problem
Solving the model types of errors and their fixes
MASS scaling
Post-Processing-Introduction (verification and validation)
Post-Processing a typical explicit model

Week 07 - Material Modelling using LS-DYNA

Material introduction
Material testing
Modelling materials
Elastic-plastic materials
Material modelling from the raw data
Hands-on hyperelastic material ( Mat-law 77 )
Contact mechanics
Types of contacts
Full contact parameters
Contact parameter - SOFT
Segment projection
Initial penetration
Tied contacts
Contact output

Week 08 - Crash and Safety

Vehicle crash safety
Crash mechanics
Design for crash
The vehicle development process
Knowledge of simulation engineers
Regulation and NCAPS
Score calculation
Model preparation: Static vs Crashworthiness
General guidelines for crash model preparation
Mesh and mesh quality
Model organisation and integration
Parameterization
Forming data

Course 5: Basics of FEA - Explicit and Implicit FEA

Week 01 - Introduction to FEA

What is FEA? and Why FEA?
Advantages and industrial applications of FEA
Different types of FEA analysis
Pre-requisites of FEA
Basics of Approximate and Exact solution methods

Week 02 - Methods of FEA

Weighted residual techniques
Basics of Petrov-Galerkian
Potential energy approaches

Week 03 - Basics of FEA

Meshing/Discretization
Types of Elements in FEA
Terminologies like Nodes, Elements etc.
Introduction to Stiffness matrix, Plane stress and Plane strain conditions

Week 04 - 1D Element (Bar element)

Stiffness Matrix of 1D element
Nodal Displacements
Nodal DOF
Stress and Strain Calculations
Shape functions
Homogenization of Problems
Case study Problem

Week 05 - 2D Element

Stiffness Matrix of 2D element
- Nodal Displacements
- Nodal DOF
- Stress and Strain Calculations
- Shape functions
- Stiffness matrix of CST elements

Week 06 - 3D Element and FEA characteristics

Stiffness Matrix of higher order 1D element
Stiffness Matrix of LST element
Stiffness Matrix of 3D element
Nodal Displacements
Different non-linearities in FEA
Basic types of material models
Factors influencing Solution of FEA

Week 07 - Basics of ANSYS

Introduction to ANSYS
Material Models
Meshing techniques
Solving Simple Static Problems

Week 08 - Equations of Motion

Study of Basic Equations of Motions
Mass Matrix, Stiffness Matrix
Time dependance of Analysis
Physics of Crash
Study of Mathematics related to Crash

Week 09 - Explicit and Implicit FEA

What are Explicit and Implicit analysis
Basic Applications
Advantages and Disadvantages of methods
Difference between Explicit and Implicit methods
Time steps, Hourglassing and Contacts used
Mathematical approaches used by Explicit and Implicit analysis
Case Studies:
- Hydroforming of Automotive Structures
- Modelling of Shape memory alloys

Week 10 - ANSYS

Case Studies:
- Crush Analysis of square/rectangular tube using ANSYS
- Impact of ball/bullet on Steel thin plate

Admission details

The candidates who wish to apply for the ‘Master's in Design for Crashworthiness and Analysis’ online programme can register through the official website.

Step 1: Go to the online course page of ‘Master's in Design for Crashworthiness and Analysis’ on the Skill Lync official website using the link https://skill-lync.com/mechanical-engineering-courses/masters-design-for-crashworthiness/about

Step 2: Click on the ‘Enroll now’ option.

Step 3: Choose the interested access for the online course, fill in the details and register.

Filling the form

The interested applicants will have to enter their name, phone number and email address to register for the online ‘Master's in Design for Crashworthiness and Analysis’ application.

Scholarship Details

The candidates can apply for the scholarship test and avail an amount upto Rs. 25000 for the ‘Master's in Design for Crashworthiness and Analysis’ online programme.

How it helps

This Master's in Design for Crashworthiness and Analysis online certification programme provides a practical learning experience for the students to develop their skill set in automation technology specifically on the concepts of crashworthiness. The eight months-long course helps the candidates to receive a certification to be successful in their career and Skill Lync also offers guidance in the job market. The online course helps in gaining industry-relevant knowledge and technical assistance.

FAQs

Which online education provider offers the course on ‘Master's in Design for Crashworthiness and Analysis’?

The online course is provided by Skill Lync for simulation engineers to develop their industrial skills.

What is the duration of the ‘Master's in Design for Crashworthiness and Analysis’ online programme?

The course is scheduled for eight months.

What is the eligibility criteria for the ‘Master's in Design for Crashworthiness and Analysis’ online training programme?

There is no prerequisite requirement for this programme.

Is the ‘Master's in Design for Crashworthiness and Analysis’ online programme available for free?

No, the total course fee is Rs 2,75,000 which can be paid in flexible installments.

Will I receive a certificate after completing the ‘Master's in Design for Crashworthiness and Analysis’ online course?

Yes, the top five students of the class will receive a merit certificate and the others will receive a course completion certificate.

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