Crashworthiness improvement of a pickup truck's chassis frame using the Pareto-Front and genetic algorithm

International Journal of Heavy Vehicle Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 83-103

  Kamel, Hesham ^a   Sedaghati, Ramin ^a   Medraj, Mamoun ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chassis frame; Crashworthiness; Genetic algorithm; Impact energy; Minimum weight; Multiobjective optimisation; Pareto Front; Vehicle design

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; CHASSIS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; PARETO PRINCIPLE; THIN WALLED STRUCTURES; TRUCKS;

IMPACT ENERGY; INITIAL DESIGN; MINIMUM WEIGHT; OPTIMUM SOLUTION; PARETO FRONT; STRUCTURAL WEIGHT; THIN WALLED TUBES; VEHICLE DESIGN;

CRASHWORTHINESS;

EID: 78651317135     PISSN: 1744232X     EISSN: 17415152     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJHVS.2011.037961     Document Type: Article

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