The Open Mechanical Engineering Journal

2014, 8 : 113-116
Published online 2014 April 18. DOI: 10.2174/1874155X20140501002
Publisher ID: TOMEJ-8-113

Influence of Material Properties on Automobile Energy-Absorbing Components Crashworthiness

Liuyan Jie and Ding Lin
College of Civil Engineering, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150086, P.R. China.

ABSTRACT

In the present work, the simulation analysis of automobile energy-absorbing components was carried out using Finite Element (FE) method. The numerical simulations were carried out using the software LS-DYNA. Automobile energy-absorbing components usually were made of a metal thin walled tube. In the paper, several types of material properties were studied and compared. Results show that the material properties have influence to automobile energy - absorbing components crashworthiness.

Keywords:

Energy-absorbing components, finite element analysis, material properties.