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2001-01-1401 An Assessment of a FEA NVH CAE Body Model for Design Capability Mark J. Moeller, Robert S. Thomas, Harish Maruvada, Nurani S. Chandra and Mark Zebrowski Ford Motor Company Copyright © 2001 Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc. ABSTRACT probably should be designed to conform to ISO9001. One attempt at such is suggested by NAFEMS [1] but Finite Element Analysis (FEA) models are routinely being the idea of CAE Quality is not unique to them. adopted as a means of up-front design for automotive body structure design. FEA models play two important An important element of a QOS is the ability to functions: first as a means of assessing design versus an objectively evaluate the predictive performance of the absolute target; secondly they are used to assess the analysis. In a previous paper Moeller et al [2] proposed performance of design alternatives required to meet a metric that assessed the ability of a prediction to targets. Means of assessing model capability versus baseline or predict absolute performance against a target task is required to feed appropriate information into the that explicitly accounted for product and test variability. design process. Being able to document model This was accomplished using a hypothesis test to capability improves