In the developmental phase of passenger automobile hoods, it is crucial to take dent resistance and pedestrian head protection performances into account. And maintaining a performance balance between the two aspects has proven challenging. With few studies on how to effectively maintain the balance, in this paper, a certain passenger car hood was used as a basic model to investigate structural improvement directions that benefit both performances, by modifying several key variables of the honeycomb shaped inner panel one at a time and then outputting results of hood dent resistance and headform impact through Abaqus and LS-DYNA, respectively. The results indicated that raising the honeycomb inner panel structure at positions with poor stiffness contributes to improvements in dent resistance and pedestrian head protection performance, reflecting in a maximum stiffness increase of 50% and a reduction of 2.98% in the average value of HIC15 change rate. And other alternative improvement options, as well as their effects on dent resistance and pedestrian head protection performance, were provided, providing insights for optimizing the structure of vehicle hood inner panels.


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    Title :

    Research of Hood on Maintaining Performance Balance Between Dent Resistance and Pedestrian Head Protection


    Additional title:

    Int.J Automot. Technol.


    Contributors:
    Zhang, Huixia (author) / Shi, Yongwei (author) / Lu, Lian (author) / Gou, Ligang (author) / Wang, Lei (author) / Zhang, Jun (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2024-08-01


    Size :

    13 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English







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