Use of rigid and deformable child restraint seats in finite element simulations of frontal crashes

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wang, Qian ^a   Kapoor, Tanya ^a   Altenhof, William ^a   Chen, Likun ^b   Howard, Andrew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; AUTOMOBILE TESTING; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CRASHWORTHINESS; DEFORMATION; HYBRID VEHICLES; SAFETY TESTING; TENSILE TESTING;

CHILD RESTRAINT SYSTEMS; CHILD SAFETY SEATS; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; HEAD INJURY CRITERION; MATERIAL NON-LINEARITY; NECK INJURY CRITERION; SPATIAL DISCRETIZATIONS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 85072423182     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2006-01-1141     Document Type: Conference Paper

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