Non Deterministic Approaches

LMS International is a Belgian company, active in the fields of noise, vibration and durability. It provides software solutions and engineering services related to experimental as well as numerical problem analysis, simulation and solution design. LMS is a leading provider of testing systems and CAE software for functional performance engineering in mechanical product development. The LMS testing systems and simulation software enable their customers to improve their design for engineering attributes like motion, ride & handling, structural integrity, vibration, acoustics and fatigue lifetime. Widely spread LMS software products include CADA-X, SYSNOISE, Gateway, SEADS, OPTIMUS, Raynoise, Test.Lab^TM and Virtual.Lab^TM. Industrial sectors where the LMS products are sold are the automotive, aerospace, production, consumer and process industries. Currently, LMS employs about 650 people worldwide (300 at the HQ and R&D centre in Leuven (B)) with 23 offices worldwide, with a turnover in the order of 95 ME/year. LMS is involved in the area of experimental, numerical and hybrid (mixed experimental-numerical) system modelling for noise, vibration, durability and dynamics since many years.

LMS performs substantial in-house research on advanced methods for modelling and optimising the dynamics and vibro-acoustic behaviour of assembled systems from in the virtual prototype stage. This involves techniques for target propagation (can design targets on a global system be translated in targets for individual components?), system synthesis (can the global behaviour be predicted from models of the individual components?), load analysis etc. LMS is performing related research in the context of a national research project "Virtual Prototype Refinement for NVH". Vibro-acoustic research is focused on fast solvers, material modelling, medium frequency modelling and the problem of uncertainty and variability in modelling.

LMS was and is involved in several major research projects on a number of topics that go from the uncertainty and variability quantification and modeling to NVH and active noise control. LMS has experience in training projects as host in "Leonardo Da Vinci", individual "Marie Curie" and ‘Vulcanus" grants (10 so far), and university co-operations (Master and PhD thesis follow-up). Specific attention will be paid to include test and analysis cases on real structures, available from external projects. The researchers will be involved in customer contacts to get a ‘feel' of the real world problems.