This chapter gives a comprehensive account of the materials used in manufacturing
vehicles. In the first section it explains the properties and characteristics that a suitable …

The strain rate dependent mechanical properties of lath martensite are important for
developing ultrahigh strength steels for automobile applications. Here, taken 2 GPa grade …

Oxide glasses are an elementary group of materials in modern society, but brittleness limits
their wider usability at room temperature. As an exception to the rule, amorphous aluminum …

This paper presents stress-strain curves of steel sheets for an auto-body obtained at
intermediate strain rates with a servo-hydraulic type high speed tensile testing machine. The …

In this work, boron steel sheet metal blanks were austenized and quenched at five different
cooling rates ranging from 14° C/s to 50° C/s, which resulted in as-quenched microstructures …

Impact mechanics of micron-scale, Al-6061 particles on sapphire and Al-6061 substrates
were investigated experimentally and through simulations. Particle impact experiments were …

In the ULSAB Project released in 1998, high strength steels (HSS) were applied to 90
percent of the body and structural components, and a mass saving of 25 percent compared …

This paper is concerned with evaluation and prediction of the tensile properties of carbon
fiber-reinforced plastics laminates considering the strain rate effect at intermediate strain …

The vehicle-ramming terror attacks in Berlin, Barcelona, London and Nice highlighted our
vulnerability: all of us could be wounded or killed during a walk in a crowded place, it is …

The current paper describes a simple and yet comprehensive lumped-parameter model
(LPM) for simulating the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) side …