TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2000//
TI  - Simple and Effective Lumped Mass Models for Determining Kinetics and Dynamics of Car-to-Car Crashes
JO  - International journal of crashworthiness
A1  - Mooi, HG
A1  - Huibers, J. H. A. M.
SP  - 7
EP  - 24
VL  - 5
IS  - 1
N2  - A simple two-mass-spring model was developed to describe the dynamics of car-to-car collisions. The characteristics of the spring in this model can be chosen as a piecewise linear function. The model was applied to determine the dynamics of a range of crashes and to compare the dynamics of a car-to-car crash with the dynamics of crash tests. Furthermore, the model was applied to evaluate the crush length available in current cars. It showed that a large share of the current car fleet already offers enough crush length to ensure a compatible behaviour. Despite of the simplicity of the model, it can be used in an effective way to give a quick insight in the basics of real life crashes compared with laboratory crash tests. A future step is the augmentation of the model to a multi-mass-spring model by means of the software program MADYMO.     <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1358-8265
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -