Crashworthiness performance of mass-efficient extruded structures

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 183-205

  Mayer, Robert R ^a   Chen, Weigang ^a   Sachdev, Anil ^a  

^a GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM ALLOYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRASHWORTHINESS; CRUSHING; CYTOLOGY; DESIGN; EXPERIMENTS; EXTRUSION; FRACTURE TESTING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; STRAIN RATE;

ALUMINUM ALLOY 6063; AXIAL CRUSHING; CELL CONFIGURATIONS; CELL DESIGN; COMMERCIAL ALUMINUM ALLOYS; DYNAMIC STRAIN RATE; EXPERIMENTAL TESTING; EXPLICIT FINITE ELEMENT CODES; LS-DYNA; NONLINEAR MATERIAL PROPERTIES; NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; NUMERICAL TOOLS; T6 TEMPER; THEORETICAL SOLUTIONS;

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EID: 78249274945     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE2002-39077     Document Type: Conference Paper

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