中国和美国校车国家标准对比及校车座椅动态试验

学童乘车安全受到公众广泛关注。该文对比了中国和美国校车国家标准中关于车辆结构耐撞性和乘员保护相关内容。在保证乘员生存空间和有效减轻学生乘员二次碰撞伤害方面,两国标准有不同解释。依据中国新国家标准中相关的试验方法,在清华大学汽车碰撞试验室,采用减速台车,对中国某校车和美国某校车的座椅系统分别进行了30次的抗前倾性能动态试验。试验结果表明:两种座椅的假人头部、胸部、腿部的伤害允许指标HIC、ThAC、FAC等的各种指标,均能达到中国校车国家标准相关规定;但在骨架型式、制造工艺和结构强度方面,中美校车座椅有诸多不同之处。

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.

Crashworthiness design and experimental validation of a novel collision post structure for subway cab cars

This paper proposes a novel collision post structure designed to improve the crashworthiness of subway cab cars.The structure provides two innovative features:1)a simpler connection between the post and the car roof,which gives a more reasonable load transfer path to reduce the stress concentration at the joint;and 2)a stiffness induction design that provides an ideal deformation model to protect the safe space of the cab cars.The novel collision post structure was evaluated with finite element analysis,and a prototype cab car was mechanically tested.The results demonstrate that the deformation response was stable and agreed well with the expected ideal mode.The maximum load was 874.17 kN and the responses remained well above the elastic design load of 334 kN as required by the design specification.In addition,there was no significant tearing failure during the whole test process.Therefore,the novel collision post structure proposed has met the requirements specified in new standard to improve the crashworthiness of subway cab cars.Finally,the energy absorption efficiency and light weight design highlights were also summarized and discussed.

Crashworthiness of bamboo-inspired circular tubes used for the energy absorber of rail vehicles

A new type of thin-walled circular tubes(CTs),which is inspired by the bamboo with highly-efficient energy absorption(EA)capability,was proposed and designed for the potential application of the energy absorber of rail vehicles in this study.And then,the axial crushing behavior and crashworthiness of the bamboo-inspired bionic tube(BT)were experimentally and numerically investigated,compared with the single CT and foam-filled tube(FT).The typical crushing responses(e.g.,deformation mode,load-displacement response,energy absorption,and strain distribution)and quantitative crashworthiness indicators(EA,SEA,FP,Fm,and CFE)of these three types of CTs were presented and discussed.Effects of impact velocity and foam relative density on the crashworthiness of tested tubes were also explored.The experimental and simulation results show that the BT specimen exhibits the best capability of load-carrying,energy absorption,and crashworthiness among three types of tubes.Compared with the CT specimen,the EA value of BT specimens increased by 93.1%,while the corresponding Fm value raised from 74.2 kN to 143.4 kN.