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When trucks have a rollover the occupants have a high risk of injury. In the development of a new truck generation a rollover protection device is one of the features taking passive safety to a new level. To reduce the risk of injuries in rollover accidents of tractors, the Swedish OEM Scania developed the first inflatable curtain airbag for heavy commercial vehicles.
In the interview with the safety expert, ATZ discusses the development trends of safety systems and the necessity of crash tests.
The roadmap to fully automated driving has now been prepared. It is time for Bertrandt, to carry out an initial assessment of what this might mean for restraint system development. Even the simple possibility of enabling the driver to sit facing the rear of the passenger car will result in changes to the requirements placed on individual components of the system due to the greater degrees of freedom involved. Whether it is seatbelts, airbags or sensors, new application scenarios will mean that some components will have to be completely redesigned in the future.
In the development of new vehicles, the PSA Group aimed to detect squeak and rattle (S&R) problems before availability of physical prototypes for testing. This led to a close collaboration between PSA’s Method Development Engineering team and Altair’s experts.
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Dr. Alexander Heintzel
Editor in Chief
For 118 years, ATZ - Automobiltechnische Zeitschrift has been presenting cutting-edge solution concepts in automotive development and the very latest information for the everyday work of engineers relating to every aspect of the complete vehicle – whether it is the chassis or body, lighting technology or NVH, packaging or thermal management.
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Throughout the year one of the world’s most distinguished magazines on automotive engineering focuses traditionally on topics from powertrain, chassis technology or active and passive safety. Also valuable information out of the field of aerodynamics, simulation and testing as well as materials and light weight design play an important part in the magazines topic-list. Recently globally most prevailing matters like Car-to-X-Technology, autonomous driving, Connectivity, HMI or grid integration and E-Mobility are gaining an increasing importance within ATZ.
Dr. Alexander Heintzel
Editor in Chief
The scientific advisory board of ATZworldwide is made up of industry experts who work for leading companies and research institutions. By sharing ideas on a regular basis with the editorial team, the board members help to maintain the high qualitly of the magazine's content. The board provides the editorial team with first-hand information about the latest development trends and offers advice and constructive criticism.
Dipl.-Ing. Dietmar Bichler
Bertrandt AG
Dipl.-Ing. Kurt Blumenröder
IAV GmbH
Dr.-Ing. Joachim Damasky
VDA/FAT
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lutz Eckstein
RWTH Aachen, WKM
Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Eichhorn
Volkswagen AG
Dr. rer. nat. Andreas Eilemann
Mahle Behr GmbH & Co. KG
Dipl.-Ing. Klaus Fröhlich
BMW AG
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Burkhard Göschel
Burkhard Goeschel Consultancy
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Gutzmer
Schaeffler AG
Dr.-Ing. Markus Heyn
Robert Bosch GmbH
Dr.-Ing. Carsten Intra
MAN Truck & Bus AG
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Pim van der Jagt
Ford-Forschungszentrum Aachen GmbH
Dr.-Ing. Stefan Knirsch
Audi AG
Dipl.-Ing. Ralph Lauxmann
Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
Dipl.-Ing. (BA) Joachim Mathes
Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH
Dr.-Ing. Harald Naunheimer
ZF Friedrichshafen AG
Dipl.-Ing. Jörg Ohlsen
Edag GmbH & Co. KGaA
Prof. Dr. Dipl.-Ing. Peter Pfeffer
Hochschule München
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rodolfo Schöneburg
VDI-FVT
Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. (FH) Wolfgang Schwenk
Adam Opel AG
Dr. Michael Steiner
Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Weber
Daimler AG
Dr.-Ing. Christian Wiehen
Wabco GmbH
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