Dynamic Simulations of Heavy Goods Vehicles Cranfield Impact Centre, Limited

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Anderson, J., author.

Conference Name:

International Truck and Bus Meeting & Exposition (1999-11-15 : Detroit, Michigan, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 1999

Summary:

Heavy vehicle cabs of the cab-over' type construction have very little structure in front of the driver which can be used to absorb energy during a frontal collision. As part of a project to develop a crashworthiness standard for Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGV) cabs [1], a phase of dynamic computer simulations was carried out. The simulations used Finite Element (FE) models analysed with the LS-Dyna3D software, and concentrated on cabover' type vehicles.Typical accidents, involving frontal collisions, were reconstructed for potentially survivable truck to truck impacts. The residual space was defined by the geometry of a 95%ile dummy and it's intrusion was recorded for each analysis.Also using dynamic simulations a Type Approval-like test scenario was developed which was representative of the generic frontal impact accidents.A summary of all the simulation results is presented by this paper

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Publisher Number:

1999-01-3776

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Restricted for use by site license