REVIEW ARTICLE


Influence of Material Properties on Automobile Energy-Absorbing Components Crashworthiness



Liuyan Jie*, 1, 2, Ding Lin1, 2
1 College of Civil Engineering, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150086, P.R. China
2 Northeast Frost Civil Engineering Key Laboratory of Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150086, P.R. China


© 2014 Jie and Lin

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Abstract

In the present work, the simulation analysis of automobile energy-absorbing components was carried out using Finite Element (FE) method. The numerical simulations were carried out using the software LS-DYNA. Automobile energy-absorbing components usually were made of a metal thin walled tube. In the paper, several types of material properties were studied and compared. Results show that the material properties have influence to automobile energy - absorbing components crashworthiness.

Keywords: Energy-absorbing components, finite element analysis, material properties, strain rate, yield strength.