Considerations Concerning Vehicle Collisions Through Simplified Calculations of the Impact Forces Merces-Benz do Brasil

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Onusic, Helcio, author.

Conference Name:

SAE Brasil 96 V International Mobility Technology Conference and Exhibit (1996-10-07 : Sao Paulo, Brazil)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 1996

Summary:

Vehicle Safety is very attractive, concerning active or passive safety. The collisions are intensively studied including deformations, kinematics, protections, devices and injuries. By the way, today we have a lot of computer programs trying to simulate these crash-tests. But, we can have an idea about the magnitude of the impact forces of a vehicle against a rigid wall starting from known physical concepts and simplified approximations. This is one of the purposes of this work.The classic problem of projectile impacts against a rigid wall and the example of an aircraft impact against a nuclear power plant are used to consider the models applied to vehicles.We consider the disacceleration of a material point and also the vehicle as an extense object.Real data are used to quantify the achieved expressions. We compare and discuss the magnitude of the forces, for instance, between a passenger car and a commercial vehicle. We use the results to discuss the qualification of seat anchorage, some parameters concerning deformation and aspects of frontal impacts regarding passenger cars and commercial vehicles

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Publisher Number:

962324

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license