Automotive Technology Research Association
The Forschungsvereinigung Automobiltechnik eV (FAT) is a department of the VDA ( Association of the Automotive Industry ) in Germany. It was founded in 1971 and promotes scientific automotive research. All areas of automobile construction including automobile parts and accessories as well as the environmental relevance and safety of products and production systems as well as production processes are taken into account. For this purpose, the FAT awards contracts to research institutions in the following areas:
- safety
- environment
- Material / manufacturing processes
- Transport efficiency
- Electronics and software
- Calculation methods
The individual project description, the selection and the supervision are carried out by working groups (AK) and sub-working groups (UAK) or by their members. The GIDAS project is carried out in cooperation with the Federal Highway Research Institute .
Overview of the working groups
- Automobile and the environment
- The human driver
- UAK vibration dummy
- Accident research / biomechanics
- Dynamic axle load and road stress
- Air conditioning
- aerodynamics
- Optimization of the road traffic system
- Torque conversion and power transmission
- Driving dynamics of commercial vehicles
- recycling
- Noise generation tire / road surface - adhesion coefficient
- Lightweight construction
- Driving dynamics of cars
- Passive safety of commercial vehicles
- Electromagnetic compatibility
- Joining technology
- UAK plastics and adhesives
- Vehicle interior emissions
- UAK thermal desorption
- Finite elements - application in automotive engineering
- UAK 1 quality assurance with CAE
- UAK 2 CAE developing a concept
- UAK 3 optimization
- UAK 4 networking technologies
- UAK crash and occupant simulation
- Simulation of mixed systems with VHDL-AMS
- Electronics and simulation