Energy Absorption and Response Speed of Crush Beam in Smaller Electric Cars

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10.2991/amms-17.2017.74How to use a DOI?

Keywords

crush beam; materiel; cross-sectional shape; can structure; energy absorption; response speed

Abstract

The use of composite materials to construct the crush beam could enhance the structure performance and provide a lightweight solution. In this paper, we studied the influence of materiel, cross-sectional shape and can structure on crush beam properties by finite element simulation analysis. Firstly, the crush beam structure in the Smartfortwo electric version was chosen to construct the model, but the parameters were changed appropriately according to BYD Qin PHEV to suit smaller electric cars. Then, by finite element simulation analysis we got the energy absorption capacity and response speed of crush beams with different variables. At last, by analysis of the simulation results, we knew the effect of variables above on crush beam properties, which can direct the design of better crush beam.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Qiao Xie
AU  - Ziyang Zhang
AU  - Azhun Zhu
AU  - Rihe Yu
AU  - Chengyang Shi
AU  - Yiqun Liu
AU  - Jianfeng Wang
PY  - 2017/11
DA  - 2017/11
TI  - Energy Absorption and Response Speed of Crush Beam in Smaller Electric Cars
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Modeling and Simulation (AMMS 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 332
EP  - 336
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/amms-17.2017.74
DO  - 10.2991/amms-17.2017.74
ID  - Xie2017/11
ER  -