Topology optimization for crashworthiness of thin-walled structures under axial crash considering nonlinear plastic buckling and locations of plastic hinges

Although topology optimization is established for linear static problems, more effort is required for solving nonlinear plastic problems. A new topology optimization approach with equivalent static loads (ESLs) is suggested to find the optimum topologies and locations of plastic hinges of thin-walled crash boxes by considering crash-induced deformation, the main crash energy-absorbing mechanism. Together with finite element method crashworthiness analyses, considering all nonlinearities with rate-dependent plasticity, the method was developed using an appropriate time-incremental scheme of ESLs without removing any high values of loads. Analyses show that the crash boxes with optimum topologies have energy-absorbing capabilities equivalent to the original structure. The proposed method is evaluated for two crashes: a crash box at low speed and a double cell subjected to high-speed collision. The results indicate that this method captures nonlinear crushing behaviours and accurate locations of plastic hinges where, if proper reinforcements are made, energy absorption can be enhanced.     

Estimating the costs of occupational injury in the United States

This article estimates workplace injury costs in the U.S. These costs have been studied in less detail than most injury costs. Our methods, which mostly use regularly published data, produce order-of-magnitude estimates. Overall, workplace injuries cost the U.S. an estimated $140 billion annually. This estimate includes $17 billion in medical and emergency services, $60 billion in lost productivity, $5 billion in insurance costs, and $62 billion in lost quality of life. One sixth of the societal costs result from the 3% of workplace injuries in motor vehicle crashes. Motor vehicle costs per injury are almost 6 times the workplace injury average.     

Simulation of the Impact Between Head and Seat Head Restraint During REC Under Consideration of the Multiphase and Nonlinear Features

The impact process between car drivers head and seat head restraint during a car rear end collision is simulated, where the multiphase and nonlinear features of the human brain tissues and the foam material of the seat head restraint are considered. Using the FEM-software LS-DYNA, the brain tissue deformation caused by a car REC is calculated. The purpose of this work is to supply references for improving the design of the head protective devices. The results show that the maximum shear strain appears near the boundaries of different phases and there is a great shear strain gradient in the brain tissues.     

城市交通弱势群体事故原因分析及事故烈度模型

以北京城市中心区为例,研究了城市交通弱势群体事故发生原因,结合交通弱势群体事故的特点及事故机理分析,提出了动态视线障碍的概念.依据交通弱势群体事故发生频率与严重程度,提出了事故烈度的概念和冲突烈度指标,通过数据分析,建立区域事故烈度与交通流量、车速之间的函数关系,以便更好地预测和评价交通弱势群体的交通安全形势状况.     

基于ABAQUS的保险杠低速碰撞的仿真研究

以某轿车为例,利用三维建模软件CATIA建立保险杠系统及碰撞器的三维仿真模型,HYPERMESH作前处理软件、有限元分析软件ABAQUS作求解器,根据欧洲的ECE—R42法规要求对轿车前保险杠进行正面低速碰撞仿真分析,得到了整个碰撞过程中保险杠系统的变形过程及应力分布情况．并对模拟结果进行了分析,总结了建立仿真模型的经验．对深入研究保险杠及整车碰撞仿真具有重要的参考价值．     

一起钻入碰撞交通事故初速度计算

针对一起高速公路严重钻入追尾碰撞交通事故,结合关于典型交通事故形态车辆行驶速度技术鉴定的国家标准,根据事故现场道路环境及路面情况、事故现场勘测数据、事故车辆损坏变形部位和特征(照片)以及实车损坏测量结果和两车车型基本参数,利用能量法与变形相结合的方法,计算得到碰撞前两车的行驶速度。计算结果为钻入碰撞事故的分析处理提供了理论依据和实践经验。     

农村公路典型路段事故风险评价方法

农村公路急弯、陡坡、路侧险要等典型路段往往是事故易发多发路段。在现阶段农村公路安保工程资金有限的情况下,需对既有典型路段的事故风险进行定量评价和排序,为隐患路段的排查和安保工程分期实施提供依据。在现有研究成果的基础上,构建典型路段事故风险评价指标体系,提出一种基于贝叶斯网络的农村公路典型路段事故风险评价方法。该方法能有效集结专家知识和经验定量评价典型路段(包括单一路段和组合路段)的事故风险,并可以随着数据的更新不断完善模型。在农村公路事故资料相对缺乏的情况下,该方法具有较强的实用性。     

Driver injury severity outcome analysis in rural interstate highway crashes: a two-level Bayesian logistic regression interpretation

There is a high potential of severe injury outcomes in traffic crashes on rural interstate highways due to the significant amount of high speed traffic on these corridors. Hierarchical Bayesian models are capable of incorporating between-crash variance and within-crash correlations into traffic crash data analysis and are increasingly utilized in traffic crash severity analysis. This paper applies a hierarchical Bayesian logistic model to examine the significant factors at crash and vehicle/driver levels and their heterogeneous impacts on driver injury severity in rural interstate highway crashes. Analysis results indicate that the majority of the total variance is induced by the between-crash variance, showing the appropriateness of the utilized hierarchical modeling approach. Three crash-level variables and six vehicle/driver-level variables are found significant in predicting driver injury severities: road curve, maximum vehicle damage in a crash, number of vehicles in a crash, wet road surface, vehicle type, driver age, driver gender, driver seatbelt use and driver alcohol or drug involvement. Among these variables, road curve, functional and disabled vehicle damage in crash, single-vehicle crashes, female drivers, senior drivers, motorcycles and driver alcohol or drug involvement tend to increase the odds of drivers being incapably injured or killed in rural interstate crashes, while wet road surface, male drivers and driver seatbelt use are more likely to decrease the probability of severe driver injuries. The developed methodology and estimation results provide insightful understanding of the internal mechanism of rural interstate crashes and beneficial references for developing effective countermeasures for rural interstate crash prevention.     

基于智能手机群的车辆事故自救系统

针对目前现有汽车事故自救系统需要装配特定的传感器、GPS及通信模块的缺点, 设计了一种基于智能手机群的自动碰撞与坠落检测及事故自救系统. 该系统以事故车内多部智能手机用户物理运动的加速度信号为输入样本,以多个加速度数据为依据计算阀值, 不但使得事故判断的准确度显著提高还降低了严重事故时单个车载装置或手机损毁无法实现呼救可能性. 当信号超过阀值后, 自动借助手机的拍照、GPS定位、3G联网功能实现向救援中心报警求救. 在Android平台实现原型系统. 实验结果表明, 该系统具有非常好的碰撞及坠落识别准确度     

Failure detection and consensus in the crash-recovery model

Summary. We study the problems of failure detection and consensus in asynchronous systems in which processes may crash and recover, and links may lose messages. We first propose new failure detectors that are particularly suitable to the crash-recovery model. We next determine under what conditions stable storage is necessary to solve consensus in this model. Using the new failure detectors, we give two consensus algorithms that match these conditions: one requires stable storage and the other does not. Both algorithms tolerate link failures and are particularly efficient in the runs that are most likely in practice – those with no failures or failure detector mistakes. In such runs, consensus is achieved within time and with 4 n messages, where is the maximum message delay and n is the number of processes in the system. Received: May 1998 / Accepted: November 1999