Crash and safety assessment program for paratransit buses

International Journal of Impact Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 235-242

  Kwasniewski, Leslaw ^a   Bojanowski, Cezary ^b   Siervogel, Jeff ^b   Wekezer, Jerry W ^b   Cichocki, Krzysztof ^c  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b FAMU FSU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (United States)

^c KOSZALIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Computational mechanics; Crashworthiness; Impact engineering; LS DYNA; Paratransit bus

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS; CRASHWORTHINESS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SAFETY ENGINEERING; STANDARDS;

ASSESSMENT PROGRAMS; BUS DESIGNS; BUS STRUCTURES; CONSTRUCTION PROCESSES; EXPLICIT DYNAMICS; FE MODELS; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; FLORIDA; FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONS; IMPACT ENGINEERING; LS-DYNA; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; PARATRANSIT; PARATRANSIT BUS; PASSENGER COMPARTMENTS; PASSENGER FATALITIES; PROCUREMENT PROGRAMS; SAFETY ASSESSMENTS; SIDE IMPACTS; STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS; VEHICLE SAFETY STANDARDS;

BUSES;

EID: 57649111988     PISSN: 0734743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijimpeng.2008.05.003     Document Type: Article

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