An experimental and numerical crashworthiness investigation of thermoplastic composite crash boxes

Composite Structures

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 245-257

  Zarei, Hamidreza ^a   Kröger, Matthias ^a   Albertsen, Henrik ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b Jacob Composite GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Composite crash box; Crashworthiness optimization; Energy absorption

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; CRASHWORTHINESS; DELAMINATION; GLASS FIBERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYAMIDES; THERMOFORMING; WELDING;

COMPOSITE CRASH BOX; MULTIDESIGN OPTIMIZATION;

THERMOPLASTICS;

ADHESION; FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GLASS FIBER; OPTIMIZATION; SYNTHETIC POLYAMIDE; TESTING; THERMOPLASTIC PROPERTY; WOVEN FABRIC;

EID: 44449166594     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2007.10.028     Document Type: Article

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