Crashworthiness - Energy Management and Occupant Protection

From the fundamentals of impact mechanics and biomechanics to modern analysis and design techniques in impact energy management and occupant protection this book provides an overview of the application of nonlinear finite elements, conceptual modeling and multibody procedures, impact biomechanics, injury mechanisms, occupant mathematical modeling, and human surrogates in crashworthiness.

List of contents

Structural Impact (N. Jones); Macro Element Method in Crashworthiness of Vehicles (W. Abramowicz); Nonlinear Explicit Finite Element Methods (T. Belytschko); Multibody Dynamics Tools for Structural and Biomechanics Crashworthiness (J. A. C. Ambrósio); Crashworthiness Biomechanics (J. Wismans); Injury Biomechanics (D. Viano)

Summary

From the fundamentals of impact mechanics and biomechanics to modern analysis and design techniques in impact energy management and occupant protection this book provides an overview of the application of nonlinear finite elements, conceptual modeling and multibody procedures, impact biomechanics, injury mechanisms, occupant mathematical modeling, and human surrogates in crashworthiness.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jorge A C Ambrosio (Editor), Jorge A. C. Ambrosio (Editor), Jorge A.C. Ambrosio (Editor), Jorge A. C. Ambrósio (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Wien
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.05.2009
• EAN: 9783211833346
• ISBN: 978-3-211-83334-6
• No. of pages: 466
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 242 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 836 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 466 p.
• Series: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences; CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics; C, Classical mechanics, Complex systems, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Physics and Astronomy, Mechanics, Dynamical systems, Dynamics & statics, Statistical physics, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems