DESIGN FOR CRASHWORTHINESS ---XXI FISITA CONGRESS, BELGRADE, 2-6 JUNE, 1986, PROCEEDINGS. VOLUME 3 AND VOLUME 4.

To aid secondary safety in the most cost effective way it is important to incorporate design for crashworthiness in the early stages of the project. This paper describes an approach to predicting the crash behaviour of automotive structures in line with structural safety. The methodology incorporates the setting up of data covering the non-linear properties of the individual components and joints. Depending on the stage of the design at which this method is used, the non-linear properties are established by estimation, detailed analysis or test. The application of non-linear collapse analysis of the structure, both quasi-statistically and dynamically result in the collapse properties of the overall structure, rate of collapse and its effect on the occupant. Successful application of this approach to a number of automotive structures is demonstrated by citing some of the projects carried out recently. For the covering abstract of the conference see IRRD 809110.

• Corporate Authors:

  YUGOSLAV SOCIETY OF AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERS

  27 MARTA 80
  Beograd, Serbia,   Yugoslavia 
• Authors:
  • SADEGHI, M M
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Media Info

• Pagination: p. 319-24
• Serial:
  • Publication of: YUGOSLAV SOCIETY OF AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERS
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: YUGOSLAV SOCIETY OF AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERS

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobiles; Behavior; Conferences; Crashes; Data banks; Deformation; Design; Dynamics; Evaluation and assessment; Failure; Forecasting; Loss and damage; Mathematical analysis; Methodology; Motor vehicle bodies; Nonlinear systems; Properties of materials; Statics; Tests; Vehicle components; Vehicle occupants
• Subject Areas: Design; Materials; Passenger Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00486881
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 30 1989 12:00AM