Meet VIF.

Virtual Vehicle is a leading international R&D center for the automotive and rail industries with over 300 employees headquartered in in Graz/Austria. Research priority is the linking of numerical simulations and hardware testing, which leads to a powerful HW-SW whole system design and automation of testing and validation procedures. Following this focus on industry-related research Virtual Vehicle is the innovation catalyst for future vehicle technologies.  

The international partner network of Virtual Vehicle consists of around 100 national and international industrial core partners (OEMs, Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers as well as software providers) as well as over 40 national and international scientific institutions.

Within SALIENT, Virtual Vehicle is responsible for crash analysis and virtual testing of the Front-End-Structure (FES) concepts. To accomplish this task, a modular simulation environment is developed providing a base for the full vehicle crash and compatibility simulations in future mixed traffic accident. This will allow an evaluation of the overall safety performance and weight saving potential of the concepts developed. In addition, Virtual Vehicle contributes to the identification of future mixed traffic scenarios, the estimation of the material cards for the novel materials and the modeling of joining techniques.