Stadco's in-house specialist FEA team have access to the latest software and dedicated cluster technology to quickly understand and predict HVN conditions on their customers products. Software includes MSC Nastran, PAFEC-VibroAcoustics and our own in-house software for carbon fibre designs.

Noise, Vibration, and Harshness (NVH) is of strategic importance in delivering the brand values and in meeting customers increasing level of expectations for quality and vehicle comfort.

Stadco understands the process of converting the brand values into objective vehicle targets, which in turn are cascaded down to sub-system and component level. This gives the fundamental requirement for engineering NVH character of the vehicle.

The NVH performance of the vehicle covers many different operating conditions and spans a wide frequency range. In order to design for these numerous conditions, a large number of simulation and test activities are undertaken to address performance at both the vehicle and component levels. Stadco has powerful, dedicated cluster hardware enabling numerous simulations to be undertaken quickly, often around the clock. This ensures calculation of performance levels and the timely generation of optimum solutions.

Stadco's FEA department are able to manage the delivery of complete vehicle NVH performance from initial benchmarking and target setting, through vehicle analytical synthesis, to prototype and production test and development activities.

Stadco has developed in house tools to simulate the complete vehicle noise and vibration of virtual prototypes under various operating conditions, which enables the optimisation of key parameters such as the complete vehicle modal alignment strategy, body noise sensitivity, powertrain and suspension mounting strategies.