Automotive
Technical Paper

Passenger Car Frontal Barrier Simulation Using Nonlinear Finite Element Methods

871958

10/1/1987

Event
Passenger Car Meeting & Exposition
Authors
Donald A. Vander Lugt Current Eng. and Mfg. Services Staff General Motors Corp.
Roger J. Chen Current Eng. and Mfg. Services Staff General Motors Corp.
Ashok S. Deshpande Current Eng. and Mfg. Services Staff General Motors Corp.
Abstract
Content
This paper describes the numerical simulation of a 30 MPH passenger car frontal barrier crash. The simulation was perforated on a CRAY X-MP/24 with PAM-CRASH, which is an explicit finite element code. The deformed shapes, and barrier force deformation from the simulation and the test are compared. The process of developing this frontal crash simulation is discussed, along with its application in the crashworthiness design process.
Meta Tags
Topics
Frontal collisions
Design processes
Simulation and modeling
Affiliated or Co-Author
Current Eng. and Mfg. Services Staff General Motors Corp.
Details
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/871958
Pages
8
Citation
Lugt, D., Chen, R., and Deshpande, A., "Passenger Car Frontal Barrier Simulation Using Nonlinear Finite Element Methods," SAE Technical Paper 871958, 1987, https://doi.org/10.4271/871958.
Additional Details
Publisher
SAE International
Published
10/1/1987
Product Code
871958
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English