Robust design of an automobile front bumper using design of experiments

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering

Volumn 220, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1199-1207

  Lee, Kwon Hee ^a   Bang, Il Kwon ^a  

^a Dong A University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Design of experiments; Finite element method; Front bumper; Robust design

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

FRONT BUMPER; ROBUST DESIGN; STIFFNESS CONSTRAINTS;

AUTOMOBILE BUMPERS;

EID: 33947598309     PISSN: 09544070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/09544070JAUTO311     Document Type: Article

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