MDO of automotive vehicle for crashworthiness and NVH using response surface methods

9th AIAA/ISSMO Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Craig, K J ^a   Stander, Nielen ^b   Dooge, D A ^c   Varadappa, S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b LIVERMORE SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

^c CENTRO RICERCHE FIAT   (Italy)

^d Quantum Consultants Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; DESIGN AIDS; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; MODAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; NOISE , VIBRATION AND HARSHNESS; RESPONSE SURFACE METHOD; SENSITIVE VARIABLES; STRUCTURAL COMPONENT; TORSIONAL FREQUENCY;

CRASHWORTHINESS;

EID: 85086490768     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2002-5607     Document Type: Conference Paper

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