HVE allows you to reconstruct and simulate crashes involving all types of road vehicles (passenger cars, trucks, articulated vehicles, etc.). 3-dimensional issues involving vehicle rollover, collision under-ride, irregular road surfaces (curbs, potholes and embankments), as well as system failures, such as brake defects or tire blow-out, are handled directly. The role of the driver, such as inattention or over-correction, can be evaluated in great detail. HVE may also be used to analyze injuries to occupants and pedestrians.
HVE is a complete 3-D simulation environment providing vehicle design engineers, safety researchers and accident reconstructionists with an extremely sophisticated (but very easy to use) tool for their routine work. Using advanced, state-of-the-art physics programs specifically designed to take advantage of the capabilities found in HVE, you can effectively perform studies to evaluate the dynamic handling behavior of existing and prototype vehicle designs, design and test the effectiveness of vehicle braking systems, study driver response to transient effects caused by tire blow-outs or irregular terrain, simulate vehicle-to-barrier and vehicle-to-vehicle crash tests, simulate real-world crashes and identify potential sources of occupant injury resulting from those same crashes.
A series of editors within HVE allow you to move freely between model set-up (human, vehicle and environment), event management and results. Additionally, HVE offers an extensive feature set available in several HVE-compatible simulation programs. These features allow for advanced simulation of vehicle control systems, driver reactions, tire or brake system failures and 3-D collision modeling. Each HVE-compatible physics program (e.g. SIMON, GATB) is an independent program running inside the HVE simulation environment. More information about each physics program can be found below, or by using the links along the left hand side of this page.

Crash Reconstruction and Simulation Software
HVE-2D allows you to reconstruct and simulate loss of control scenarios and crashes on relatively flat surfaces. Events may involve any number and any type of vehicles, including articulated vehicles.
HVE-2D™, with its built-in databases and visual user-interface can greatly reduce your data input and calculation time while improving the reliability of your analysis. For example, if your inputs have a vehicle moving in the wrong direction or a damage profile on the wrong side of the vehicle, you will see it immediately. HVE-2D also improves the accuracy of your analysis by providing engineering diagnostics and warning messages pertaining to violations of the Laws of Physics. Thorough documentation and detailed tutorials help you understand how to use HVE-2D. If that's not enough, EDC provides the best training and technical support in the business. All of this boosts your work performance and saves you time.