Meet our SIMULIA Champion Halewijn Stikvoort a CAE/NVH Research Engineer with Meneta Advanced Shims Technology in Denmark.​​​​​​​

Shims are a vital part of every car although they are not well known outside the automotive industry, Stikvoort explains. These components prevent a car’s brakes from squealing when the car stops. Stikvoort’s greatest challenge in his career involved a task he set for himself, a task that others in the industry said would be impossible.

“I’ve had for many years now the idea that I wanted to characterize the product (shim) and understand it and be able to also simulate it,” Stikvoort says. “The important thing for understanding a product is also being able to model it and have a model describing it so that you can also extrapolate data and analyze it better in a virtual environment.”

We will be getting to know some of our individual SIMULIA Champions in a series of blogs, finding out more about their history – and future – with the technology. Read the full interview with Halewijn on the SIMULIA blog.

https://blogs.3ds.com/simulia/meet-simulia-champion-halewijn-stikvoort/