Frontal collision analysis of City Car
Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2009.
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| author | Neal, Terance (Terance K.) Hill, David |
| author2 | William J Mitchell. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/630312019-04-12T12:56:58Z Frontal collision analysis of City Car Frontal collision analysis of CityCar Neal, Terance (Terance K.) Hill, David William J Mitchell. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. Mechanical Engineering. Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2009. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (p. 39). This experiment tests the proposed crash system of the CityCar. The car is to fold during the crash to help decrease the impact force experienced by the passengers. The experiment was conducted by running a simulation of the car crashing into a wall compared to that of a rigid car with no folding, and by building a one-fifth scale wooden model of the CityCar, running it into a wall, and measuring the force upon impact. The simulation was ran at 20 mph, 50 mph, and 80 mph, with weight ratios between the front and back of the car respectively of 1:1, 1:2, 1:3, 2:1, and 3:1, as well as three variations in the damping of the folding process. Both experiments show that the folding car experienced lower forces than the rigid car. The variations done in the simulation suggest that a back heavy car with considerable damping is best, but these results were a bit inconsistent and unclear and, therefore, will be tested more completely in the future. Results suggest that folding during a crash provides significant help, but this experiment only provides preliminary feedback useful for future analysis of the CityCar. by Terance Neal [and] David Hill. S.B. 2011-05-23T18:05:12Z 2011-05-23T18:05:12Z 2009 2009 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/63031 721261705 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 39 p. application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Mechanical Engineering. Neal, Terance (Terance K.) Hill, David Frontal collision analysis of City Car |
| title | Frontal collision analysis of City Car |
| title_full | Frontal collision analysis of City Car |
| title_fullStr | Frontal collision analysis of City Car |
| title_full_unstemmed | Frontal collision analysis of City Car |
| title_short | Frontal collision analysis of City Car |
| title_sort | frontal collision analysis of city car |
| topic | Mechanical Engineering. |
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