Recent statistics on road traffic fatalities indicate that occupants of low ride-height cars are generally at a disadvantage in frontal collisions against incompatible vehicles such as SUVs and pickup trucks. To overcome the inadequacy of current vehicle crash safety tests, it has been recently shown that a stepped rigid barrier (SRB) can be a cost-effective tool for assessing the safety performance of a unibody car in collision against a body-on-frame pickup truck. However, the potential of the SRB was shown in terms of its ability to better represent the severe upper body deformation a car can experience during collision against a pickup truck. It has been demonstrated here that new car assessment programme injury parameters also compare well in car-to-truck and car against the previously developed SRB collisions. The assessment of the SRB is done with the help of the explicit finite element analysis solver of LS-DYNA 960.


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    Title :

    A modified rigid barrier for improved assessment of occupant injury in incompatible frontal collisions


    Additional title:

    Eine modifizierte starre Barriere zur verbesserten Bewertung der Insassenverletzung beim frontalen Zusammenstoß ungleich hoher Fahrzeuge


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2008


    Size :

    19 Seiten, 25 Bilder, 4 Tabellen, 21 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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