Today, there is considerable interest in the use of aluminium for reducing the weight of passenger cars to reduce fuel consumption and exhaust emissions, particularly CO2 emissions. In recent years, several aluminium structured cars have been developed and are in service in various parts of the world, all of which have met the relevant vehicle safety requirements. However, concern continues to be raised about the crashworthiness of light weight vehicles. This paper will summarize data generated by the aluminium industry on the energy absorption of aluminium automotive materials and structures under impact collapse conditions as well as published information from the automotive industry on the crashworthiness of aluminium intensive vehicles. All of these data demonstrate that aluminium structured vehicles can be designed to be crashworthy and to provide at least the same level of occupant protection as equivalent steel structured vehicles but at about half the vehicle structure weight.
Crashworthiness of aluminium structured vehicles
Kollisionssicherheit von Aluminiumkarosserien
1998
10 Seiten, 7 Bilder, 7 Tabellen, 17 Quellen
Conference paper
English
Crashworthiness of aluminium structured vehicles
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