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Year: 2011 | Volume: 10 | Issue: 7 | Page No.: 1462-1467
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Tso-Liang Teng

Chien-Hsun Wu

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Technical Report

Numerical Simulation of Side Impact Crashes

Tso-Liang Teng and Chien-Hsun Wu
Side impact collisions are the second most frequent cause of serious motor vehicle accidents after frontal impact. To reduce the severity of human injury through improved automobile design and designing protection devices, the dynamic response and injury of occupants in collisions must be analyzed. This study investigates the development and validation of a vehicle, movable barrier and dummy FEM model for studying interaction. Based on the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 214 (FMVSS214), the numerical crash test model was developed to simulate a side impact accident. The crash simulations were conducted using the LS-DYNA finite element code. The numerical models were found to be able to predict the severity of the driver’s injury in impacts. The proposed methodologies can then be used to study the dynamic behavior of occupants and analyze injuries in side impact accidents. Moreover, the simulated models obtained herein give design guidelines for the vehicular structure and safety equipment needed to protect occupants.
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