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Pareto Optimization of Heavy Duty Truck Rear Underrun Protection Design for Regulative Load Cases

Journal Article
2014-01-9027
ISSN: 1946-391X, e-ISSN: 1946-3928
Published October 01, 2014 by SAE International in United States
Pareto Optimization of Heavy Duty Truck Rear Underrun Protection Design for Regulative Load Cases
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Citation: Balta, B., Erk, O., Solak, H., and Durakbasa, N., "Pareto Optimization of Heavy Duty Truck Rear Underrun Protection Design for Regulative Load Cases," SAE Int. J. Commer. Veh. 7(2):726-735, 2014, https://doi.org/10.4271/2014-01-9027.
Language: English

Abstract:

Rear underrun protection device is crucial for rear impact and rear under-running of the passenger vehicles to the heavy duty trucks. Rear underrun protection device design should obey the safety regulative rules and successfully pass several test conditions. The objective and scope of this paper is the constrained optimization of the design of a rear underrun protection device (RUPD) beam of heavy duty trucks for impact loading using correlated CAE and test methodologies. In order to minimize the design iteration phase of the heavy duty truck RUPD, an effective, real-life testing correlated, finite element model have been constructed via RADIOSS software. Later on, Pareto Optimization has been applied to the finite element model, by constructing designed experiments. The best solution has been selected in terms of cost, manufacturing and performance. Finally, real-life verification testing has been applied for the correlation of the optimum solution.