Optimization of longitudinal beam for improvement of crashworthiness in frontal and offset impacts
Paper in proceeding, 2012

The aim of the study is to optimize the longitudinal beam based on 100% overlapping rigid barrier ( 100% RB ) impact and 40% overlapping offset deformable barrier ( 40% ODB ) impact. The 100%RB and 40%ODB impact FE models were developed in LS-DYNA and validated by using results from crash tests. According to the requirement of crashworthiness, the peak of acceleration of left B-pillar and energy absorbed per unit mass of longitudinal beam were chosen as optimization objects, and the thicknesses of four parts of the longitudinal beam were considered as the design variables. Furthermore, uniform design was applied to build variable samples. Optimal results were obtained by surrogate model built by Kriging and optimization method NSGA-II (Non-Dominated Sorting in Genetic Algorithms-II). The results showed that 100%RB and 40%ODB impact should be considered together when longitudinal beam was designed. The optimized longitudinal beam matches well and effectively improves vehicle crashworthiness.

NSGA-II

uniform deisgn

longtitudinal beam

frontal impact

Author

X. Chen

Hunan University

Jikuang Yang

Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Vehicle Safety

2012 3rd International Conference on Digital Manufacturing and Automation, ICDMA 2012. Guilin, Guangxi, 31 July - 2 August 2012

582-585
978-076954772-5 (ISBN)

Subject Categories

Mechanical Engineering

Computational Mathematics

Vehicle Engineering

Areas of Advance

Transport

DOI

10.1109/ICDMA.2012.138

ISBN

978-076954772-5

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10/8/2017