The reduction of weight is crucial in the automotive sector to reach a lower energy consumption and an increased range, especially for electrically powered vehicles. In this regard, body-in-white parts offer high potential application lightweight construction. required savings can be achieved by implementing with strength-to-weight ratio. A promising approach combination materials design, which...

In the realm of van design, researchers have been diligently working to enhance rollover crashworthiness while concurrently achieving lightweight body structures. Unlike front and side impacts, is impacted by a greater number structural dimensions material parameters. As such, this paper implements an unreplicated saturated factorial design conduct factor screening for vehicle crashworthiness. ...

A hardness-based model for tailor hardened boron steel is presented that takes into account the softened heat-affected zone of resistance spot welds. The computational model is designed for crashworthiness simulation of fully and partially hardened components obtained by tailored tooling. Five different hardness grades of 22MnB5 are used for model calibration. The proposed model is validated wi...

Background: The design for vehicle structural crashworthiness which ensures that components of desired crash performance characteristics are used in product manufacturing essentially involves the evaluation of the energy absorption potentials of the structures using suitable computation method. Due to unresolved difficulties in achieving detailed results through the existing methods researchers...

Mass transportation systems and specifically bus systems are a key element of the national transportation network. Buses are one of the safest forms of transportation. Nonetheless, bus crashes resulting in occupant injuries and fatalities do occur. Therefore, crashworthiness research is a continuing effort. Using funding from the Federal Transit Administration, NIAR at Wichita State University ...