FE simulations of motorcycle—car frontal crashes, validations and observations
Titel:
FE simulations of motorcycle—car frontal crashes, validations and observations
Auteur:
Chawla, A. Mukherjee, S. Mohan, D. Bose, D. Rawat, P. Nakatani, T. Sakurai, M.
Verschenen in:
International journal of crashworthiness
Paginering:
Jaargang 10 (2005) nr. 4 pagina's 319-326
Jaar:
2005-04-01
Inhoud:
ISO 13232 [1] requires 7 configurations for full scale tests (FSTs) between the motorcycle (MC) and the car (also called the opposing vehicle, OV). Of these, 3 involve the impact of the MC with the front of the OV. This paper presents Finite Element (FE) based simulations of these impact configurations. It does not evaluate the efficacy of any safety devices but refers to parts of ISO 13232 for developing these simulations. This paper analyses FE based simulations of the above-mentioned impacts. The simulations have been developed using the PAM-CRASHTM solver. In this paper an attempt has been made to compare the kinematics of the simulations with those obtained from the FSTs. The simulations indicate that the MC-OV impacts are sensitive to many phenomena. The objective of this paper is to highlight some of the important aspects of MC-OV simulations. This paper has been revised from an earlier version of the paper [2].