Heavy vehicle cabs of the ‘cab-over’ type construction have very little structure in front of the driver which can be used to absorb energy during a frontal collision. As part of a project to develop a crashworthiness standard for Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGV) cabs [1], a phase of dynamic computer simulations was carried out. The simulations used Finite Element (FE) models analysed with the LS-Dyna3D software, and concentrated on ‘cabover’ type vehicles.Typical accidents, involving frontal collisions, were reconstructed for potentially survivable truck to truck impacts. The residual space was defined by the geometry of a 95%ile dummy and it’s intrusion was recorded for each analysis.Also using dynamic simulations a Type Approval-like test scenario was developed which was representative of the generic frontal impact accidents.A summary of all the simulation results is presented by this paper.


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    Title :

    Dynamic Simulations of Heavy Goods Vehicles


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Truck & Bus Meeting & Exposition ; 1999



    Publication date :

    1999-11-15




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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