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The work presented in this paper was developed with the objective of increasing road safety for motorcycle drivers. Guardrails are traffic barriers placed along the roadsides to protect vehicles from hazards behind the barriers. These ...

Using Finite Element Method (FEM) it is possible to show and predict the behaviour of the vehicle’s structure during a crash test. To ensure good simulation results compared to the reality it is not only necessary to correctly build ...

Standard material models like linear elastic or elastic plastic formulations are not able to precisely reproduce component behavior when failure occurs. Micromechanical damage models enable a more accurate prediction of material ...

Determination of material data for automotive crash simulation is a costly and time consuming process. Especially the measurement of material behaviour like strain rate sensitivity and stress state dependent fracture is a difficult ...

Alcan relies strongly on crashworthiness simulations in its development of light weight automotive crash management systems at Gottmadingen, Germany. The effectiveness of CAE-based crash performance assessments considerably depends on ...

Bolt connections are one of the main joining techniques in commercial vehicles. To capture the main effects of this connection type a new modelling technique is discussed and compared with conventional techniques. To describe the bolt ...

During the recent years, the development of suitable and robust models for joining technologies has been advanced to augment the quality of full car crash simulations. Furthermore, the utilization of high-strength steel alloys and ...

The non-associated plasticity model, based on the first and second invariant of the stress tensor, describes reasonably well the mechanical behaviour of crashoptimized high-strength adhesives in the automotive industry. This pressure ...

The development of suitable and robust simplified spot weld models for full vehicle crash simulation meets one of the major demands of the development process regarding efficient and appropriate full car crash models. Normally a high ...

Today’s automotive industry is challenged with reducing fuel consumption, CO2 emissions, weight and cost. The usage of ultra high strength steel is one possibility to reduce weight and improve crash behaviour. The development with ...