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Title:

Modeling, Testing, and Validation of 2007 Chevy Silverado Finite Element Model

Accession Number:

01153242

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

The National Crash Analysis Center (NCAC) at the George Washington University (GWU) has been developing and maintaining a public domain library of finite element (FE) vehicle models for use in transportation safety research. Using NCAC’s unique and innovative reverse engineering process, a FE model of the 2007 Chevrolet Silverado pick-up truck was developed. This pick-up truck satisfies the requirements for a 2270P test vehicle under the soon to be adopted crashworthiness evaluation criteria specified in the Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware (MASH). Since this FE model will be extensively used to design safer roadside barriers, the representation of the suspension system and its dynamic response becomes a critical factor influencing the performance of the roadside barrier. To improve the FE model fidelity and applicability to the roadside hardware impact scenarios it is important to validate and verify the model to multitude of component and full-scale tests. A series of highly instrumented, non-destructive, full-scale tests and destructive component level suspension tests were conducted to gather data for validating the suspension system of the FE model. This paper provides a description of the vehicle FE model, the various component and full-scale tests that were performed, and the current status of the model validation to these physical tests.

Monograph Accession #:

01147878

Report/Paper Numbers:

10-2457

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Mohan, Pradeep
Marzougui, Dhafer
Kan, Cing-Dao (Steve)
Opiela, Kenneth S

Pagination:

18p

Publication Date:

2010

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 89th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2010-1-10 to 2010-1-14
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

DVD

Features:

Figures (14) ; Photos (6) ; References (5) ; Tables (1)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Reverse engineering

Subject Areas:

Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2010 Paper #10-2457

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jan 25 2010 11:09AM