The purpose of this research is to analyse the influence of steering control devices for disabled people on passive safety. It is based on the advances made in the modelling and simulation of the driver position and in the suit verification test. The influence of these devices is studied through airbag deployment and/or its influence on driver safety. We characterise the different adaptations that are used in adapted cars that can be found mounted in vehicles in order to generate models that are verified by experimental test. A three-dimensional design software package was used to develop the model. The simulations were generated using a dynamic simulation program employing LS-DYNA finite elements. This program plots the geometry and assigns materials. The airbag is shaped, meshed and folded just as it is mounted in current vehicles. The thermodynamic model of expansion of gases is assigned, and the contact interfaces are defined. Static tests were carried out on the deployment of the airbag to contrast with and to validate the computational models and to measure the behaviour of the airbag when there are steering adaptations mounted in the vehicle.


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    Title :

    Evaluation of the passive safety in cars adapted with steering control devices for disabled drivers


    Contributors:
    Masia, J. (author) / Eixeres, B. (author) / Dols, J.F. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2011


    Size :

    9 Seiten




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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