News/Conferences

Guilherme Malacrida Alves will defend his PhD thesis on “Experimental modal analysis of time varying non-linear systems. Application to brake squeal” Subject to defense authorization, it will take place🕓 on Wednesday, January the 29th at 2 p.m📌 at Amphi A – 151 Boulevard de l’hopital 75013 Paris (Arts & Métiers… Read more: Guilherme Malacrida Alves: PhD defense

How to design vibration tests exhibiting viscoelasticity, hyperelasticity and rate-independent hysteresis behavior of rail pads ? Etienne Balmes will present“Non-linear viscoelastic damping: designing tests needed for transient simulation of a rail track”at the ISMA 2024 conference (International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering) hosted by KULeuven 🎙️ The talk to… Read more: Non-linear viscoelastic damping: designing tests needed for transient simulation of a rail track

SDTools is involved in several communications at the ISMA24 (International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering) hosted by KULeuven. Etienne Balmes will talk about Hybrid FEM/test twin building challenges when it comes to an electric drive application⚡. Keeping a rational parametrized reduced order modelling approach based on component mode synthesis,… Read more: ISMA 2024 : Hybrid FEM/test twin building, an electric engine case history

Guilherme Malacrida Alves, a PhD student at SDTools in collaboration with Hitachi Astemo, will present “Analysis of a brake squeal functional model using a linear parameter varying perspective”at the Inter-Noise 2024 conference 📢 The talk to be given will present a simplified functional model able to reproduce the main brake squeal… Read more: Inter-noise 2024 : brake squeal functional LPV model

EuroBrake is happening next week in Mainz and SDTools will be attending with Guilllaume Vermot des Roches. No presentation for us this year, but we are still very active in brake NVH applications, so we will be happy to get in touch with you over there! Our recent work focuses… Read more: EuroBrake 2024: let’s meet there!

SDTools will be present at the CSMA 2024 conference https://csma2024.sciencesconf.org/ The talk [1] to be given will address challenges associated to the generation of a Hybrid FEM/test twin model of an automotive electric car engine in partnership with Stellantis: Describing test outputs The electric engine case study being detailed combines… Read more: CSMA 2024 : Hybrid FEM/test twin building, an electric engine case history

Etienne Balmes made a presentation entitled “Challenges in structure born vibration models, Hybrid FEM/test twin building, an electric engine case history” at the SIA/AFM meeting https://www.sia.fr/evenements/324-mecanique-electrique

Error characterization in modal analysis and model updating. An overview of tools and procedures using the Structural Dynamics Toolbox. will be presented by Etienne Balmès at the SURVISHNO conference in Lyon on July 8, 2019. This tutorial will mix theoretical considerations and applications using SDT (animations https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy5PHLw70NqfDDvg24tXJWg , presentation www.sdtools.com/pdf/Vishno19_Tutorial.pdf… Read more: Tutorial at SURVISHNO

Etienne Balmès, CEO of SDTools was invited as a keynote speaker at the ISMA (International Symposium on Modal Analysis) conference in Leuven, Belgium on September 17, 2018. ISMA 2018 is the 28th international conference in a series of annual courses and biennial conferences on structural dynamics, modal testing and noise… Read more: Keynote lecture of Etienne Balmès, CEO of SDTools, at the ISMA conference