ENERGY-ABSORBING CHARACTERISTICS OF VEHICLE BODY STRUCTURE

As the first step for grasping the energy-absorbing characteristics of motor vehicles, we examined the occurrence of loads (energy-absorbing characteristics) on the body structural members undergoing axial compression in collisions. Practical equations using the method of effective width, were set up. As a result, it was made clear that body members absorbed crush energy more effectively at the corners than by the plates. Simultaneously we conducted a series of sled and practical collision tests on sheet metal members having various of sections, and it was experimentally ascertained that computations and measured values were in agreement, proving the method under question justifiable. /Author/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Originally published in the Transactions of the Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, Incorporated, No. 7, May, 1974.
• Corporate Authors:

  Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan

  16-15, 1-chome, Takanawa, Minato-ku
  Tokyo 108,   Japan 

  Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan

  16-15, 1-chome, Takanawa, Minato-ku
  Tokyo 108,   Japan 

  Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan

  16-15, 1-chome, Takanawa, Minato-ku
  Tokyo 108,   Japan 
• Authors:
  • Aya, N
  • Takahasi, K
• Publication Date: 1976-4

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; References;
• Pagination: p. 65-74
• Serial:
  • Society of Automative Engineers (Japan) Bulletin
  • Issue Number: 7
  • Publisher: Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Axial compression; Crash tests; Crashes; Energy absorption; Motor vehicles; Sheet metal; Structural members; Testing; Vehicles
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00156083
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Research Institute
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 20 1977 12:00AM