The Car That Crumples to Save You
In short: How a car's frontal crash structure is engineered to absorb crash energy and keep the occupants' survival space intact, and the trade-offs engineers weigh to get there.
A 1:59 short film in the series “How It Worked”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.
Sources used in this film: Springer Nature (Springer, Singapore), Proceedings of China SAE Congress 2022 (SAE-China), “Crash Analysis and Optimization of Front-End Structure of Formul SAE”; Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio, Springer Nature), “High-fidelity numerical framework for crashworthiness evaluation of passenger car body structures under full-frontal impact - Scientific Reports”.
Sources used in this film
- Springer Nature (Springer, Singapore), Proceedings of China SAE Congress 2022 (SAE-China) — Crash Analysis and Optimization of Front-End Structure of Formul SAE · View →
- Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio, Springer Nature) — High-fidelity numerical framework for crashworthiness evaluation of passenger car body structures under full-frontal impact - Scientific Reports · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: Springer Nature (Springer, Singapore), Proceedings of China SAE Congress 2022 (SAE-China): Crash Analysis and Optimization of Front-End Structure of Formul SAE
- Also: Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio, Springer Nature): High-fidelity numerical framework for crashworthiness evaluation of passenger car body structures under full-frontal impact - Scientific Reports
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