Pedestrian Safety
In the effort to further improve active and passive safety in the automotive industry increasing attention was directed in recent years towards the area of pedestrian safety. The European Enhanced Vehicle-safety Committee (EEVC) developed testing procedures which allow the evaluation of front ends of vehicles with regard to their performance during collisions with pedestrians. The resulting four testing procedures led to four different impactor models: lower leg, upper leg, adult and child head models. It is considered that these four testing procedures are representative for the main impact scenarios in case of a pedestrian hit by a car at the speed of 40 km/h. The initiative by the EEVC is already having a substantial impact on the automobile industry since it is influencing the design of upcoming vehicle models. Finite Element simulation is an efficient tool in order to gain better insight into the performance of vehicle front ends from early on in the design process.
Content:
- General issues in the area of pedestrian safety
- Description of impactor models: Head, hip and leg impactors (assembly and materials used)
- Description of certification tests, discussion of the various impact scenarios on a vehicle front structure
- Exercises: Configuration of example computations
- Evaluation of HPC for head impact; forces and moments for hip impact; and acceleration, bending angle and shear displacement for leg impact
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