TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2003//
TI  - N-Point Linear Interpolation of Motor Vehicle Crush Profiles Applied to Various Force-Shortening Models
JO  - International journal of crashworthiness
A1  - Singh, Jagbir
A1  - Welcher, J
A1  - Perry, Jacquelin
SP  - 321
EP  - 328
VL  - 8
IS  - 4
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1358-8265
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -