Numerous collision conditions can occur during ship operations, resulting in various consequences that require specific consideration for optimizing crashworthiness design. Existing studies have investigated design structures; however, they often focus on single working and do not comprehensively consider the diverse scenarios encountered operations. To overcome this drawback, paper proposes a ...

Vehicle frontal crashworthiness analysis is an important topic in the field automotive community, as it relates to legislative requirements. Frontal crash models contain a large number of elements and therefore present high computational cost, especially when performing structural performance optimisations. A new numerical methodology proposed this paper with aim increase computation speed by i...

This report describes the results of research to develop and apply a comprehensive model to consider the influence of the mix of vehicle types on the total safety of the light passenger vehicle fleet in Australia. Key inputs to the model are estimates of the crashworthiness and aggressivity of light passenger vehicles in the key crash types representing the majority of crashes in which these ve...

There is concern that a trend toward smaller, lighter, fuel-efficient vehicles could adversely affect overall fleet safety. Since 2006, the U.S. Congress has directed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to “examine the possible safety benefits of lightweight plastic and composite intensive vehicles (PCIVs)” with Federal and industry stakeholders. This paper identifies near-term r...