Car side structure crashworthiness in pole and moving deformable barrier side impacts

Tsinghua Science and Technology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 725-730

  Wang, Dazhi ^a   Dong, Guang ^a   Zhang, Jinhuan ^a   Huang, Shilin ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Car; Crashworthiness; Finite element simulation; Pole side impact; Side impact

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AUTOMOBILES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMPACT RESISTANCE;

CAR; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATION; POLE SIDE IMPACT; SIDE IMPACT;

CRASHWORTHINESS;

EID: 33846394094     PISSN: 10070214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1007-0214(06)70256-5     Document Type: Article

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