Characteristics of windshield cracking upon low-speed impact: Numerical simulation based on the extended finite element method

Computational Materials Science

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 582-588

  Xu, Jun ^a,b   Li, Yibing ^a   Chen, Xi ^b,c,d   Yan, Yuan ^b,c   Ge, Dongyun ^a   Zhu, Mengyi ^a   Liu, Bohan ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Crack propagation; Extended finite element method; Glass; Low speed impact; Windshield

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT INVESTIGATORS; ACCIDENT RECONSTRUCTION; CIRCUMFERENTIAL CRACKS; CRACK PATTERNS; CRACK-GROWTH MECHANISMS; CRITICAL ACCIDENTS; EXTENDED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOREIGN OBJECT; HEAD IMPACT; IMPACT SPEED; LOW-SPEED IMPACT; MATERIAL FRACTURE; MODEL PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PARAMETRIC STUDY; PEDESTRIAN PROTECTION; QUASI-STATIC INDENTATION; RADIAL CRACKS; REAL-WORLD; SAFETY ENGINEER; SPEED IMPACTS; VEHICLE MANUFACTURERS; WINDSHIELD GLASS;

ACCIDENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; DISASTERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GLASS; PEDESTRIAN SAFETY; SPEED; WINDSHIELDS;

CRACKS;

EID: 77950944440     PISSN: 09270256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2010.02.026     Document Type: Article

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