Adaptive crashworthiness concept

International Journal of Impact Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 639-663

  Holnicki Szulc, Jan ^a   Knap, Lech ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Poland)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Adaptive structures; Crashworthiness; Optimal design; Structural control

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ENERGY ABSORPTION; ENERGY DISSIPATION; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; YIELD STRESS;

ADAPTIVE STRUCTURES; COLLISSION RESISTANCE; OPTIMAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL CONTROL;

CRASHWORTHINESS;

EID: 1942532919     PISSN: 0734743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijimpeng.2003.08.004     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Lewis J. Tests validate methods to cut injuries. Int Railway J Res Dev 1995; 30-1.
2. SNCF Report: Succes complet de collision experimentale sur TGV 2N, Revue generale des chemins de fer, April 1994. p. 41-3.
3. Cleon LM. Crashworthiness of new design railways vehicles. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Technological Innovation in Guided Transports, Lille, France, 1993.
4. Abramowicz W., Jones N. Transition from uniform bending to progressive buckling of tubes loaded statically and dynamically. Int J Impact Eng. 19(5-6):1997;415-437. [Special issue in honour of Professor W. Johnson's 75th birthday].
5. Abramowicz W, Wierzbicki T. Calculation and design of multi-cell aluminium structures for crash. Final Report to the JRC/BRITE EuRam II project on "Low Weight Vehicle - Design of Aluminium Alloy Body Structures", February 1994.
6. Distin K, Smith RA. Rail vehicle crashworthiness and the role of FE analysis. PAM'93 Third European Workshop on Advanced Finite Element Simulation Techniques, Schlagenbad, Germany, 1993.
7. Locomotive Crashworthiness Research, US Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration. Final Report DOT/FRA/ORD-95/08.1, DOT-VNTCS-FRA-95-4.1, vols. 1-5, 1995.
8. Tyrell DC, Severson KJ, Marquis BP. Train crashworthiness for occupant survivability, crashworthiness and occupant protection in transportation systems. Am Soc Mech Eng 1995; AMD-Vol. 210/BED-Vol. 30: 59-78.
9. Smith RA. Crashworthiness of trains: principles and progress, crashworthiness and occupant protection in transportation systems. Am Soc Mech Eng 1995; AMD-Vol. 210/BED-Vol. 30: 79-88.
10. Abramowicz W. The macro element approach in crash calculations. Ambrosio J., Pereira M. Crashworthiness of transportation systems: structural impact and occupant protection. 1997;Dordrecht, Kluwer.
11. Holnicki-Szulc J., Gierlinski J.T. Structural analysis, design and control by the VDM method. 1995;Wiley, Chichester.
12. Knap L., Holnicki-Szulc J. Dynamic analysis of adaptive, visco-plastic structures. Proc Complas Barcelona. 5:1997;17-19.
13. Holnicki-Szulc J, Knap L, Flont P. Adaptive structures-general concept and railway applications. Proceedings of the Second International Conference MV2 on Active Control in Mechanical Engineering, Lyon October 1997. p. 22-3.
14. Knap L, Holnicki-Szulc J. Smart structures with adaptive impact absorption. Proceedings of the Second World Congress of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Zakopane, Red Gutkowski, Mróz May 1997. p. 26-30.
15. Knap L, Holnicki-Szulc J. Design of adaptive structures for improved crashwortheness. Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop SMART-98, Pultusk, Czerwiec, 1998. p. 16-19.
16. Holnicki-Szulc J., Mackiewicz A., Kolakowski P. Design of adaptive structures for improved load capacity. AIAA J. 36(3):1998;471-476.
17. Spencer Jr BF, David Carlson J, Sain MK, Yang G. On the current status of magnetorheological dampers: seismic protection full-scale struct. Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Albuquerque New Mexico, June 1997. p. 4-6.
18. Adaptive Impact Absorption, IFTR, Patent licence applied for.
19. Powell M.J.D. Tolmin. a Fortran package for linearly constrained optimization calculations, report DAMTP/1989/NA2:1989;University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
20. Knap L, Holnicki-Szulc J. Optimal design of adaptive structures for the best crashworthiness. Proceedings of the Third World Congress on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Buffalo, May 1999.