TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2023//
TI  - An estimation of road crash severity based on energy absorption
JO  - Journal of transportation research (Tehran)
A1  - Sanginabadi, Mohsen
A1  - Fallah Zavareh, Mohsen
A1  - Sabouri, Hadi
SP  - 353
EP  - 366
VL  - 20
IS  - 4
N2  - An ever-increasing number of fatal and severe injury road crashes have made road safety a long-lasting worldwide challenge. Behind any traffic conflict indicators are assumptions that take them away from the real road crashes. To relax the inelastic assumption, we conducted road crash analysis using multi-body elastoplastic dynamic finite element simulations in Ls-Dyna. We considered different crash scenarios defined by collision angle, relative velocities of vehicles involved, and the area of impact on vehicle bodies. Analyzing vehicle crashes using the law of conservation of energy, we calculated the amount of dissipated energy during a crash. The dissipated energy is revealed as the extent of damage to vehicle bodies during a crash. For each crash scenario, the amount of absorbed energy was calculated, and different modes of failure were observed.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1735-3459
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.22034/tri.2022.311598.2968
ID  - ref1
ER  -