Aggressivity-Reducing Structure for Large Vehicles in Frontal Car-to-Car Crash

2004-01-1163

03/08/2004

Event
SAE 2004 World Congress & Exhibition
Authors Abstract
Content
This paper clarifies aggressivity reduction approach for MPV, Multi-Purpose Vehicles, derived from large passenger vehicles toward small passenger vehicles. The effects of aggressivity-reducing approach were measured through full-frontal rigid barrier crash simulations with TRL aluminum honeycomb by Finite Element Method. The front-end structures of large vehicles studied in this paper based on this aggressivity reduction approach show good front-end homogeneity and low average height of force. The structures were also found to effectively reduce aggressivity toward small vehicles by car-to-car simulation. However, there are some cases where the effect was influenced by overlap ratios. From this result, overlap ratio is considered to be one of the important factors to improve compatibility performance.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2004-01-1163
Pages
11
Citation
Fujii, S., Sunakawa, T., Abe, A., Fukushima, M. et al., "Aggressivity-Reducing Structure for Large Vehicles in Frontal Car-to-Car Crash," SAE Technical Paper 2004-01-1163, 2004, https://doi.org/10.4271/2004-01-1163.
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Published
Mar 8, 2004
Product Code
2004-01-1163
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English