Vehicle interior head impact simulations using FCRASH

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Applied Mechanics Division, AMD

Volumn 225, Issue , 1997, Pages 315-331

  Barbat, Saeed D ^a   Chou, Clifford C ^a  

^a FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; IMPACT TESTING; VISCOELASTICITY;

SOFTWARE PACKAGE FCRASH;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVER SIMULATORS;

EID: 0031387074     PISSN: 01608835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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