The 5 biggest mistakes when choosing an engineering service provider for calculations

Hardware and software for structural analyses, crash analyses and flow calculations are becoming increasingly better and more powerful.

Unfortunately, the competence of the calculation engineers is decreasing at the same rate. They no longer have to think fundamentally about the choice of model approach, the correct boundary conditions, load introduction, the algorithms used and the model size, because the systems make it easier for them to operate and the standards do the thinking for them.

As a result, the number of undetected errors increases and there are fewer and fewer experienced experts who can still see at a glance that what has been calculated has little to do with reality.

As the software copes with ever more extensive data, models are created that are so complex that no one can understand them anymore, let alone estimate by hand whether the result is correct.