Technical Paper
Analysis of Compressive and Bending Collapse of the Vehicle Structure
2002-03-04
2002-01-0680
The focus of this research is to analyze the mechanism of the compressive and bending collapse for a thin-walled box beam taking into consideration its initial imperfection, which represents a part of the vehicle structures under a high speed crash test, by using the Finite Element (FE) Method. According to our analysis in high-speed crash tests, most of the vehicle structures are damaged by compression and bending. We approached these problems by simplifying the vehicle structure in analysis to the thin-walled box beam to analyze crash behavior under compression and bending conditions by using the FE Method. We mainly examined the stress distribution and behavior of collapse of the box beam with the effective area method. As a result of this research, it is recognized that the beginning of collapse is elastic buckling.