Repeatability of full-scale crash tests and criteria for validating simulation results

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1528, 1996, Pages 155-160

  Ray, Malcolm H ^a  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PERFORMANCE; ROADSIDES; SIMULATION; TESTING;

FULL-SCALE CRASH TESTS; VALIDATING SIMULATION RESULTS;

CRASHWORTHINESS;

EID: 0030232286     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1528-17     Document Type: Article

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