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26 February 2009

Implementation Investments

Triple Eight Race Engineering Drive Increased Simulation Accuracy with MSC.Software's Multi-Discipline Simulation Solutions

MSC.Software announced that Triple Eight Race Engineering, the motorsport company responsible for the design, build and racing of the cars of the Vauxhall VX Racing team has extended their relationship to include the company's multi-discipline (MD) solutions. With the addition of MSC.Software's MD solutions, Triple Eight Race Engineering aims to progressively increase the scale, complexity, and ultimately the reliability of their race car simulations. Since becoming MSC.Software partners in 2004, Triple Eight and VX Racing have won nine championships, including the triple crown last season.

Under this new agreement Triple Eight will migrate their existing simulation environment to a new standard platform based on the multi-discipline (MD) solutions including MD Nastran. The migration to the new MD Solution portfolio is managed via Enterprise Advantage, a flexible scaled licensing system, allowing a cost effective technology expansion, while maintaining the heritage of experience and investment in their existing engineering products environments. By using the MD solutions, the design team at Triple Eight focus on overall structural optimisation of the race car chassis and detailed simulation both at component and system level of critical performance items such as the suspension assemblies. In addition to a more accurate representation of complex non-linear race applications, the new MD capabilities will provide substantial productivity gains in the areas such as multi-body free and glued contact, and topology optimization.

"We are enthusiastic about adding MSC.Software's MD solutions to our existing simulation capability," said Kevin Berry, Technical Director at Triple Eight Race Engineering. "Our designers and engineers heavily rely on having not only the best software technology but also support at hand, whenever it is required to avoid any down time. In these ways, MSC.Software has played a key part in helping us to achieve success and we look forward to having many more championships to celebrate."

MD Nastran is the core solution technology behind MSC.Software's SimEnterprise portfolio. By combining all of the most common analysis types into a single integrated solution, MD Nastran enables a wide range of multi-discipline applications to be addressed with greater accuracy and speed than was traditionally possible. The coupled nature of the MD Nastran simulation allows significant improvements both in the physical representation of the simulation model, and in the computational efficiency of the solution. It also eliminates the inefficiencies and potential for error in the re-modelling and data translation associated with a traditional chained analysis approach of multiple point technologies.

"Through its extensive experience with Triple Eight Race Engineering, MSC.Software has developed a special understanding of the unique demands of the industry", said Amir Mobayen, Executive Vice President for Worldwide Sales and Services, MSC.Software. "The migration to multi-discipline simulation at Triple Eight Race Engineering is another example of one of the major MD standardization projects around the globe, as customers seek to maintain competitive advantage and maximize their return on investment by using the latest simulation technology."

About Triple Eight Race Engineering

Based in Oxfordshire, UK, Triple Eight Race Engineering was formed in 1996, primarily to design, build and race Vauxhalls on behalf of the General Motors (GM) brand in the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC). A close working alliance has developed during a decade of success and Triple Eight is now Vauxhall's technical partner for motorsport. Triple Eight also has commercial interests through the Performance Vehicles section of the company, that transfer race winning performance onto road going models. Triple Eight has spearheaded several special projects for Vauxhall, starting with the 2001 manufacture of 100 Astra Coupé special edition's, dubbed the T8 and then the production of a high performance limited edition Astra Sport Hatch turbo diesel. Most recently Triple Eight have enhanced the Astra Nürburgring special edition and tweaked 500 Arctic Edition Corsa's.

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