A micromechanical composite approach for finite element crashworthiness simulation

Roadmap for Crashworthiness Finite Element Simulation of Roadside Safety Structures

The subject of this investigation is the development of an accurate simulation of a truck impacting a strong-post w-beam guardrail. Detailed methods for system simulation are proposed and three major issues which involve the use of springs to simulate component crashworthiness behavior is investigated. Rail to blockout bolt connection, soil-post dynamic interaction, and effect of ends of guardr...

A New Stress Based Approach for Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis

This article demonstrates a new approach for nonlinear finite element analysis. The methodology is very suitable and gives very accurate results in linear as well as in nonlinear range of the material behavior. Proposed methodology can be regarded as stress based finite element analysis as it is required to define the stress distribution within the structural body with structural idealization a...

Integrated Finite Element Environment for Composite Process Simulation

SUMMARY In this paper the LUSAS High Precision Moulding (HPM) integrated finite element environment for composite process simulation is introduced and validated against test components with single and double curvatures. Presented results show dependence on the laminate thickness, radius and in-plane dimensions, these agree well with the experimental data.

A simple approach for finite element simulation of reinforced plates

We present a new approach for adding Bernoulli beam reinforcements to Kirchhoff plates. The plate is discretised using a continuous/discontinuous finite element method based on standard continuous piecewise polynomial finite element spaces. The beams are discretised by the CutFEM technique of letting the basis functions of the plate represent also the beams which are allowed to pass through the...

X-ray Based Micromechanical Finite Element Modeling of Composite Materials Nscm-29