As occupant protection offered by new passenger vehicles has improved, there has been growing concern about the harm that some vehicle designs may inflict on occupants of other vehicles with which they collide. Preceding analyses of crash statistics have clearly demonstrated the incompatibility between passenger sedan cars (PS) and pick-up trucks (PU) involved in side impact crashes in British ...

A finite element (FE) model of a 1998 Audi Model A8 has been developed for the crash analysis associated with the NHTSA NCAP program. The AUDI model A8 is an all aluminum four-door passenger vehicle; it is classified as a ‘large sedan’ car. The model developed is to be used to analyze frontal impact against a rigid barrier as specified in standard procedures associated with the assessment of pa...

sedan passenger-cars are known today as one of the most popular industrial products. since the advent of the first samples by henry ford and karl benz ever, classification and recognition of passenger-cars have been based on the set of technical standards or experimental criteria and have not been from the point of view of designers and stylists who focus on content of form and visual aesthetic...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is conducting a research program to investigate the crash compatibility of passenger cars, light trucks and vans (LTV’s) in vehicle-to-vehicle collisions. NHTSA has conducted a series of eight full-scale vehicle-to-vehicle crash tests to evaluate vehicle compatibility issues. Tests were conducted using four bullet vehicles representing ...

Background A finite element (FE) model based on a 2012 Toyota Camry passenger sedan was developed through the process of reverse engineering by the Center for Collison Safety and Analysis (CCSA) researchers under a contract with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). The model can be downloaded from the library of FE vehicle models developed to support crash simulation efforts [1]. The mode...

To construct the lumped spring-mass model considering the occupants for the offset frontal crash, the SISAME software and the NHTSA test data were used. The data on 56 kph 40% offset frontal vehicle to deformable barrier crash test of a MY2007 Mazda 6 4-door sedan were obtained from NHTSA test database. The overall behaviors of B-pillar and engine of simulation models agreed very well with the ...

This paper describes the design and construction of a fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle based on the conversion of a five passenger production sedan. The vehicle uses a relatively small fuel cell stack to provide average power demands, and a battery pack to provide peak power demands for varied driving conditions. A model of this vehicle was developed using ADVISOR, an Advanced Vehicle Simulato...

A finite element (FE) model based on a 2010 Toyota Yaris passenger sedan was developed through the process of reverse engineering at the National Crash Analysis Center (NCAC) of The George Washington University (GWU). This detailed FE model was constructed to include full functional capabilities of the suspension and steering subsystems. This model was validated by comparing the simulation of t...