The crashworthiness analysis of road vehicles requires detailed data of the vehicles that the
automotive manufacturers are, generally, unable to release due to commercial or legal …

The design of components, or particular safety devices, for road vehicles often requires that
many analyses are performed to appraise different solutions. Multibody approaches for …

This work proposes an optimization methodology for the identification of realistic multibody
vehicle models, based on the plastic hinge approach, for crash analysis. The identification of …

The multibody (MB) vehicle models, used in crash analysis, reduce calculation time by
several orders of magnitude, when compared with the finite element models. The drawback …

Nieustanny rozwój techniki obliczeniowej pozwala obecnie na tworzenie coraz większych i
bardziej dokładnych modeli nieliniowych zjawisk fizycznych. Powszechną praktyką staje się …

The body of the vehicle is primarily designed to carry the occupants and cargo, the vehicle
powertrain, and the chassis, and, only after, to mitigate human injury of occupants or other …

This work proposes an optimization methodology for the identification of vehicle multibody
models for crashworthiness analysis based on the use of plastic hinge approach. The …

Although high performance computing has dramatically transformed the automotive design
and engineering process allowing for automotive manufacturers to simulate a single vehicle …

The design requirements of advanced mechanical and structural systems exploit the ease of
use of the powerful computational resources available today to create virtual prototyping …