Background: The design for vehicle structural crashworthiness which ensures that components of desired crash performance characteristics are used in product manufacturing essentially involves the evaluation of the energy absorption potentials of the structures using suitable computation method. Due to unresolved difficulties in achieving detailed results through the existing methods researchers...

Mass transportation systems and specifically bus systems are a key element of the national transportation network. Buses are one of the safest forms of transportation. Nonetheless, bus crashes resulting in occupant injuries and fatalities do occur. Therefore, crashworthiness research is a continuing effort. Using funding from the Federal Transit Administration, NIAR at Wichita State University ...

In Europe, emphasis is being transferred from injury prevention to accident prevention to reduce road casualties. This study attempted to identify the current potential for serious casualty reduction using passive safety by examining the crash performance of new cars with seriously injured occupants. The Co-operative Crash Injury Study conducts in-depth investigations of around 1200 vehicles pe...

The response surface methodology (RSM), which typically uses quadratic polynomials, is predominantly used for metamodeling in crashworthiness optimization because of the high computational cost of vehicle crash simulations. Research shows, however, that RSM may not be suitable for modeling highly nonlinear responses that can often be found in impact related problems, especially when using limit...

With an increasing number of and also more complex demandson today’s automobiles the need for fast and accuratesimulations to support the Engineering Design (ED) process isgetting more important. The demands that are put on theautomotive designs are often contradictory i.e. weight againststiffness, and no one optimal set of solutions can be found,rather a trade-off s...

The use of metallic materials in automotive industry leads to increasing fuel consumption and cost, so trends are starting lighter cheaper materials. In applications, fibers used composites because they stronger, stiffer, than bulk materials, can achieve higher energy absorbing compared purpose this work is study the potential utilization natural crash applications. experimental procedures (the...

For the topological diversity, in-plane hexagonal honeycombs show some interesting mechanical properties which can be related to Poisson's ratios. This work trying understand how ratios affects crashworthiness of honeycombs. Based on standard beam theory, analytical model that predicting is derived, from crushing strength in terms further proposed by using one-dimensional shock model. Combining...

In this paper, a novel foam-filled double ellipse tube (F-DET) is proposed. First, the circle and ellipse tubes with three different configurations(hollow, foam-filled, double foam-filled) are investigated under axial and oblique impact by using the nonlinear finite element code LS-DYNA. The numerical results showed that the F-DET tube has the best crashworthiness performance than tubes with ot...

Developing an appropriate design process for a conceptual model is a stepping stone toward designing car bodies. This paper presents a methodology to design a lightweight and modular space frame chassis for a sedan electric car. The dual phase high strength steel with improved mechanical properties is employed to reduce the weight of the car body. Utilizing the finite element analysis yields tw...