Christopher Flegel

Christopher Flegel earned a Bachelor’s in mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota where he was chief engineer of the FSAE team. He graduated from Clemson University with a degree in automotive engineering and led the body-in-white team of the Deep Orange 6 concept vehicle project, publishing the SAE paper Conceptual Development of a Multi-Material Composite Structure for an Urban Utility/Activity Vehicle. He is currently employed at MTS Systems as a Systems Integration Engineer.

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Presentation

Hybrid system response convergence (HSRC) in RPC Connect

Hybrid System Response Convergence (HSRC) is an iterative simulation process that combines physical and virtual components to produce a coupled, full-vehicle laboratory durability test. HSRC enables full vehicle tests without requiring a road load data acquisition (RLDA) program. HSRC can speed development and reduce costs by combining the flexibility of analytical road loads with the confidence of physical testing. Full-vehicle HSRC is fully integrated into MTS’ latest RPC Connect software.