Crush behavior of spot welded hat section components with material comparison

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Applied Mechanics Division, AMD

Volumn 218, Issue , 1996, Pages 65-78

  Omar, Tarek A ^a   Kan, Cing Dao ^a   Bedewi, Nabih E ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; BEARING CAPACITY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; MATERIALS TESTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STEEL; WELDS;

CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; CRUSH LOAD CAPACITY; SPOT WELDED HOT SECTION COMPONENTS;

CRASHWORTHINESS;

EID: 0030421176     PISSN: 01608835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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