A Discussion on Interior Compartment Doors and Latches 2004-01-1483
Interior compartment doors are required by Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) 201, to stay closed during physical head impact testing, and when subjected to specific inertia loads. This paper defines interior compartment doors, and shows examples of several different latches designed to keep these doors closed. It also explores the details of the requirements that interior compartment doors and their latches must meet, including differing requirements from automobile manufacturers. It then shows the conventional static method a supplier uses to analyze a latch and door system. And, since static calculations can't always capture the complexities of a dynamic event, this paper also presents a case study of one particular latch and door system showing a way to simulate the forces experienced by a latch. The dynamic simulation is done using Finite Element Analysis and instrumentation of actual hardware in physical tests.
Citation: Keranen, M., Kulkarni, K., Stasevich, J., and Thyagarajan, R., "A Discussion on Interior Compartment Doors and Latches," SAE Technical Paper 2004-01-1483, 2004, https://doi.org/10.4271/2004-01-1483. Download Citation
Author(s):
Michael Keranen, Kumar Kulkarni, Jeff Stasevich, Ravi Thyagarajan
Affiliated:
Visteon Corporation
Pages: 10
Event:
SAE 2004 World Congress & Exhibition
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Also in:
Advances in Interiors and Instrument Panels-SP-1848
Related Topics:
Finite element analysis
Head injuries
Doors
Impact tests
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