Strain rate effects for aluminum and magnesium alloys in finite element simulations of steering wheel armature impact tests

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1149-1156

  Altenhof, W ^a   James, W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b KS Centoco Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aluminium; Impact testing; Magnesium; Sterring wheel armatures; Strain rate effects

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGNESIUM ALLOYS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRAIN RATE;

STEERING WHEEL ARMATURE; STRAIN RATE EFFECTS;

IMPACT TESTING;

EID: 0036950558     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-2695.2002.00588.x     Document Type: Article

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