A response surface based tool for evaluating vehicle performance in the pedestrian leg impact test

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Neal, Mark O ^a   Tu, Jian ^a   Jones, Donald R ^a  

^a GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PEDESTRIAN SAFETY; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

COMPUTATION ENGINE; DESIGN PARAMETERS; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; GRAPHICAL INTERFACE; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; PARAMETRIC FINITE ELEMENTS; STRUCTURAL BEHAVIORS; STRUCTURAL DIMENSIONS;

VEHICLE PERFORMANCE;

EID: 85072485491     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2008-01-1244     Document Type: Conference Paper

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