IMPACT SIMULATION OF THE CFRP STRUCTURE FOR A GT-CAR

CFRP (Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic) materials have been extensively used in racing cars because of its high stiffness and lightweight. Recently, car crash safety is becoming increasingly important even for racing cars. CFRP has also a merit on crash safety because it offers the freedom to set the material characteristics where needed and the needless of considering remaining length after the impact. In this analysis, a multi-layered shell material is applied to reproduce the crash characteristics of the CFRP structure. Fundamental crash test data of simple characteristics of CFRP, and applied to the Crash-Box of a Nissan GT500 racing car. The simulation showed good correlation with the actual test, and the final design was based on these analyses without the need of repeating impact tests. (A) For the covering abstract see ITRD E121867.

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  Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan

  10-2 Goban-cho, Chiyoda-ku
  Tokyo,   Japan 
• Authors:
  • Ando, K
  • NAKAGAWA, K
  • ARAKI, T
  • HAGIWARA, H
  • KAMEI, Y
  • SHIBAYAMA, T
  • Miura, S
• Publication Date: 2003

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 689-92
• Serial:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF IBEC 2003 (INTERNATIONAL BODY ENGINEERING CONFERENCE), HELD OCTOBER 2003, CHIBA, JAPAN
  • Publisher: Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Carbon; Conferences; Crash tests; Crashes; Deformation; Fibers; Material reinforcement; Plastics; Race cars; Simulation
• ITRD Terms: 7158: Carbon; 1631: Collision; 8525: Conference; 5595: Deformation; 4557: Fibre; 1648: Impact test (crash); 7454: Plastic material; 1230: Racing car; 9111: Reinforcement (gen); 9103: Simulation
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00979749
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 4-912519-33-X
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Oct 6 2004 12:00AM