基于车撞性能的既有护栏改造提升方案分析

为解决早期建造的路桥护栏无法满足现有的交通状况及现行规范要求的问题,现依托广澳高速公路改扩建工程护栏改造提升项目,结合既有混凝土护栏现状提出了3种不同类型的改造方案。通过建立精细化有限元模型,根据规范评价方法模拟车辆碰撞护栏过程,以护栏本身、桥梁翼缘板为主要对象对既有防撞护栏的改造方案的抗车撞性能进行对比分析。研究表明:除切除既有护栏顶部后增设钢结构方案(方案一)外,由于对原混凝土护栏高度的削减程度较大,小客车撞击时无法顺利完成导向驶出;植筋后混凝土增高增厚方案(方案二)、全部切除既有护栏后增设钢护栏方案(方案三)均能满足五级(SA)防护等级要求、车辆导向要求。方案二的现场施工难度较大,可结合现场施工条件后采用;而采用方案三的护栏受车撞后对主梁翼缘板的损伤程度最小,推荐采用。

Recent research development of energy-absorption structure and application for railway vehicles

As the application of energy-absorption structure reaches an unprecedented scale in both academia and industry, a reflection upon the state-of-the-art developments in the crashworthiness design and structural optimization, becomes vital for successfully shaping the future energy-absorption structure. Physical impacting test and numerical simulation are the main methods to study the crashworthiness of railway vehicles at present. The end collision deformation area of the train can generally be divided into two kinds of structural design forms: integral absorbing structure design form and specific energy absorbing structure design form, and different energy-absorption structures introduced in this article can be equipped on different railway vehicles, so as to meet the balance of crashworthiness and economy. In pursuit of improving the capacity of energy dissipation in energy-absorption structures, studies are increasingly investigating multistage energy absorption systems, searching breakthrough when the energy dissipation capacity of the energy-absorption structure reaches its limit. In order to minimize injuries, a self-protective posture for occupants is also studied. Despite the abundance of energy-absorption structure research methods to-date, the problems of analysis and prediction during impact are still scarce, which is constituting one of many key challenges for the future.

Vehicle Crashworthiness Simulation Based on Virtual Design of Auto-body

Vehicle crashworthiness simulation is the main component of the virtual auto-body design. One developing commercial vehicle was simulated on crashworthiness by the non-linear finite element method. The bumper crashworthiness at the speed of 8 km/h was analyzed and valuated. On the other hand, the deformation of the auto-body, the movement of the steering wheel and the dynamic responses of the occupant at the initial velocity of 50 km/h were studied. The results appear that the design of the vehicle could be improved on structure and material. Finally, the frontal longitudinal beam, the main energy-absorbing part of the auto-body, was optimized on structure. Simulation results also show that applying new material, such as high strength steel, and new manufacture techniques, such as tailor-welded blanks could improve the crashworthiness of the vehicle greatly.

Optimized body structure and packaging for car ODB impact performance

Front bumper, crash box and side rail are key body structural parts in front crash. Deformation space is affected by compartment packaging. The improvement suggestions are proposed to solve the problems existed in the current vehicle struc- ture and compartment packaging based on the areas that influence performance of automobile offset deformable barrier impact, such as the side rail, mounting, storage battery packaging,etc. It is proved that dO % offset crash simulation result of one certain car is well-correlated with the physical test. Optimization cases meet the crash performance requirements. The objec- tive of the analysis is to guide structural design and improves a car＇ s crash safety performance.

Study on optimal design to improve auto-body structural crashworthiness

In this paper the optimal model of the main energy absorbed structure in an auto-body “front rail”, based on structural crashworthiness is built. For an optimal design on structure crashworthiness, the new method is based on a response surface model and Pareto GA, which improves the efficiency and flexibility of an optimal design, that is brought forward. The traditional optimal method can not be applied in the design of an impact structure due to the high nonlinearity and large time cost of crashworthiness FE analysis. So the method of an optimal design based on crashworthiness is brought forward. After constructing the response surface model of auto-body crashworthiness, the Pareto GA can be applied to find the multi-objective globally. The optimal solution set can then be used to provide many scheme combinations for choice structural parameters.To acquire the optimized structure parameters on front rail crashworthiness, this simplified model of an original design is built. After studying various ways of reinforcing the cross-section to control the structural failure mode, a better method has been found. On the precondition of not increasing the mass of the structure, an optimal design of the front rail is performed further. Finally, the optimized scheme is implemented in the full-car impact analysis and crashworthiness is studied. With proper measures to control deformation of the front rail structure the crashworthiness can be improved with minor structural modifications.

Performance improvement of car body structure in 100% frontal impact

During the 100%front impact,all the parts of front car will participate in the course;the crash stiffness of bodywork will also reach the peak.During the crash,rational structure of bodywork can resist the distortion,absorb more energy and get better mode of distortion and low deceleration rate,so as to meet the performance of crash safety.The paper mainly makes optimization analysis based on the problems of front side rails,subframe,firewall,and optimization cases are confirmed which can decrease the intrusion and deceleration rate of the whole car.The structure of bodywork after optimization can meet the performance of crash safety.

Lightweight design of automotive front crossbeam assembly

This paper reviews the development course of the front crossbeam assembly for a self-owned brand vehicle model based on lightweight and passive safety performance. Combining with an A00 model variant, the paper details the design of extruded aluminum-alloy front crossbeam assembly from the perspectives of optimal design, performance verifi- cation, lightweight effect and cost control. The following results in the technical and engineering applications have been achieved. The weight of the developed aluminum-alloy crossbeam can be reduced by 51%. The simulated analysis of the collision rigid wall, the 40 % offset hammering as well as the static crush test of energy-absorbing box show that af- ter reasonable materials matching and size optimization of the crossbeam and the energy-absorbing boxes, the level of crash safety can be improved. The price of aluminum-alloy front crossbeam can be lowered by using the extruding die in- stead of the stamping die to reduce the die cost-sharing.