@article{ref1,
title="N-Point Linear Interpolation of Motor Vehicle Crush Profiles Applied to Various Force-Shortening Models",
journal="International journal of crashworthiness",
year="2003",
author="Singh, Jagbir and Welcher, J and Perry, Jacquelin",
volume="8",
number="4",
pages="321-328",
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.   <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1358-8265",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}