The Effect of Crashworthiness Parameter Variation on ESV Weight

730588

02/01/1973

Event
National Automobile Engineering Meeting
Authors Abstract
Content
Improved vehicle safety and increased vehicle weight are closely related and critical parameters. The capability of analytically relating vehicle crashworthiness and weight variation is necessary in order to apply a systems engineering approach to the overall vehicle weight problem. This has been accomplished at AMF by the development and use of an on-line user-oriented computer program to obtain vehicle weight as a function of crashworthiness parameter variation.
The results of a crashworthiness-weight tradeoff study performed for an optimized experimental safety vehicle (ESV) design are reported in this paper. The analytical model and computer program are presented and discussed.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/730588
Pages
17
Citation
Kazares, R., "The Effect of Crashworthiness Parameter Variation on ESV Weight," SAE Technical Paper 730588, 1973, https://doi.org/10.4271/730588.
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Published
Feb 1, 1973
Product Code
730588
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English