Citation

Singh J, Welcher J, Perry J. Int. J. Crashworthiness 2003; 8(4): 321-328.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

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Abstract

Methodologies presented in this paper increase the precision. of the traditional two, four or six-point approximations to a continuum motor vehicle crush profile by presenting the general form of the equally spaced N-point linearly interpolated approximation to a continuum motor vehicle crush profile. This general solution is applied to the various published force-shortening models for the determination of dissipated energy as a function of vehicle shortening. The general solutions for the saturation force, bilinear stiffness and power law models are compared against the constant stiffness force-shortening model.

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