Design of extruded aluminum space frame front end structures for crash energy management - Part I

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Applied Mechanics Division, AMD

Volumn 225, Issue , 1997, Pages 17-23

  Mahmood, Hikmat F ^a   Baccouche, Mohamed R ^a   Barthelemy, Bruno ^b  

^a Vehicle Safety and CAE Dept MD 3054   (United States)

^b FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; AUTOMOBILE FRAMES; AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRASHWORTHINESS; ENERGY ABSORPTION; MECHANICAL TESTING;

EXTRUDED ALUMINUM SPACE FRAME FRONT END STRUCTURES;

AUTOMOBILE MATERIALS;

EID: 0031381219     PISSN: 01608835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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