Evaluation of the effective mass of the body for helmet impacts
Currently available motorcycle helmet standards employ headforms to assess the impact absorption capability of helmets. The mass and
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A review of accident data reveals that in most pedestrian accidents, the head and lower extremity injuries are the predominant areas of
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A study on inversion of metallic thin-walled conical shells
The paper presents an experimental and computational study of the inversion process of metallic thin-walled conical shells subjected to
...External biofidelity in lateral impact measurement of global and local forces
A study was conducted to develop high-resolution external biofidelity data for the response of post-mortem human surrogates (PMHS) in
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Paratransit buses are heavily used in the United States. A paratransit bus consists of custom passenger compartments mounted onto
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In 2008, fatalities resulting from vehicle rollover events accounted for over one third of all fatalities resulting from motor vehicle
...Performance limit analysis for common roadside and median barriers using LS-DYNA
Performance limits of commonly used barriers in terms of acceptable vehicle impact heights were identified using non-linear finite
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The goal of this study was to evaluate the repeatability afforded by a rollover test system in terms of the test conditions, vehicle and
...An Optimized Content Replication and Distribution Framework for Vehicular Networks
Behaviour of helmets during head impact in real accident cases of motorcyclists
Application of FRP in a vehicle for Student Formula SAE Competition of Japan
Assessment of the protective performance of hood using head FE model in car-to-pedestrian collisions
The objective of the present study was to present a method to assess the protective performance of a passenger car hood to decrease
...Crashworthiness optimisation of vehicle structures with magnesium alloy parts
This paper explores the effects of replacing the baseline steel with lightweight magnesium alloy parts on crashworthiness
...Mechanical properties and failure mechanisms of closed-cell PVC foams
A comprehensive study of the mechanical behaviour of closed-cell polyvinyl chloride (PVC) foams with varying densities is conducted
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A Taiwanese manufacturer of off-road utility vehicles (OUVs) was so concerned by the increased number in U.S. accidents and federal
...Numerical investigation of energy absorbers in composite materials for automotive applications
Nowadays, there is increasing interest in lightweight automotive structures capable of absorbing large quantities of energy in case of a
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The use of tubes as energy absorption structures has been prevalent for many decades and numerous studies have been done on metal and
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This paper, Part II of two, presents the simulations of various impact crashes for an off-road utility vehicle (OUV) to assess the
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