Energy absorption modelling technique for car body deformation

Publication Name: Saci 2007 4th International Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics Proceedings

Publication Date: 2007-10-01

Volume: Unknown

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: 269-272

Description:

The main object of this paper is to introduce a model for describing how the enrgy distribution changes during deformational processes, esp. in car crashes. This an important and difficult task in accident analysis and in safety car-body design. Exact estimation or measuring of the absorbed energy by the deformation is almost impossible. The classical tool for this task is usually a differental equation based finite element method, which requires exact knowledge about the parameters and takes a lot of computational time with high complexity. In the following we introduce a simple numerical model for the changing of the energy distribution during the whole deformational process. © 2007 IEEE.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1109/SACI.2007.375523

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