Development of a Rigid Passenger Safety Compartment Made of Composite Material-Application for Front Door Frames Volkswagen AG

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Voy, Christian, author.

Conference Name:

SAE International Congress & Exposition (1986-02-24 : Detroit, Michigan, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 1986

Summary:

Based an extensive preparatory work and analyses, suggestions have been drawn up with regard to solutions for front door frames in the following regions:- door hinge mountings, seat belt anchorage mountings of B pillars, cross sections for the top of A pillars.At the same time as the design work, FEM calculations should be carried out to ensure optimization of the concepts.Economy reasons and experiences in production runs point towards a very strong fibre glass-reinforced door frames manufacutred in the SMC procress. The complete door frame is examined in comparison with geometrically similar sheet metal parts on a test frame and in the vehicle

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Publisher Number:

860278

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Restricted for use by site license