Offset impact behaviour of bumper beam-longitudinal systems: Numerical simulations

International Journal of Crashworthiness

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 317-336

  Kokkula, S ^a   Hopperstad, O S ^b   Lademo, O G ^b,c   Berstad, T ^c   Langseth, M ^b  

^a FMC Kongsberg Subsea AS   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c SINTEF MATERIALS AND CHEMISTRY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Adaptive meshing; Energy dissipation; Explicit crash; Heat affected zone; Modelling; Strain rate

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FRACTURE; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLASTICITY; STRAIN MEASUREMENT;

ADAPTIVE MESHING; EXPLICIT CRASH; HEAT-AFFECTED ZONE; MODELLING; STRAIN-RATE;

MATERIALS SCIENCE;

EID: 33749322318     PISSN: 13588265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1533/ijcr.2005.0106     Document Type: Article

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