FE simulations of motorcycle:​ car frontal crashes, validation and observations

Chawla, A.; Mukherjee, S.; Mohan, D.; Bose, Dipan; Rawat, Prakash; Sakurai, M.; Nakatani, T.

Affiliations

¹Transportation Research & Injury Prevention Programme, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, INDIA

²Japan Automobile Research Institute, JAPAN

Abstract and keywords

The ISO 13232 document recommends a set of 3 frontal impact test configurations between the motorcycle (MC) and the car (also known as the opposing vehicle, or OV). This paper reports Finite Element (FE) based simulations of the above-mentioned frontal impacts for the OV and their detailed analysis. The simulations have been carried out in PAMCRASHTM. The kinetics of the crash simulation has been matched with the Full Scale Test (FST) conducted at Japan Automobile Research Institute (JARI) The simulations indicate the sensitivity of the different parameters in the various MC – OV impact configurations.

Keywords: PAM-CRASH; Finite Element Method; Models; Dummies; Regulations; Full Scale Tests

Links

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