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.
A modified rigid barrier for improved assessment of occupant injury in incompatible frontal collisions
Eine modifizierte starre Barriere zur verbesserten Bewertung der Insassenverletzung beim frontalen Zusammenstoß ungleich hoher Fahrzeuge
International Journal of Vehicle Safety (Online) ; 3 , 4 ; 319-337
2008
19 Seiten, 25 Bilder, 4 Tabellen, 21 Quellen
Article (Journal)
English
Pkw (Personenkraftwagen) , Lkw (Lastkraftwagen) , Verletzung , Aufprallpuffer , Bewertungsmethode , Finite-Elemente-Methode , Versuchspuppe , Kopf (Körperteil) , Brustkorb , Simulationsversuch , Eindringtiefe , Geschwindigkeitsabnahme , Frontalzusammenstoß , Fahrzeug-Fahrzeug-Zusammenstoß , Fahrgast , Verletzungsrisiko , Fahrzeugzusammenstoßtest
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