NONLINEAR STATIC SIMULATION OF AUTOMOTIVE BUMPER OF A PASSENGER CAR IN LOW SPEED IMPACT CRASH SIMULATION

Rajshekhar A Kharde, S. F. Patil

Abstract: Bumpers are important structural components of vehicles in terms of safety, static strength, and styling. This work describes various aspects of the nonlinear static FEA of vehicle front bumpers using the commercial software Ls-Dyna, and the correlation with physical tests. The basic concepts, procedures and techniques of nonlinear FEA are presented. The effects of various aspects of nonlinear simulations like numerical integration, contact parameters, non-conformance of the mesh and material law are studied. A nodally integrated element formulation for plates is proposed for analysis, and the formulation is implemented in Ls-Dyna using the UEL user subroutine. Numerical tests are carried out on the new element. Suggestions are proposed in simulation to improve the correlation of CAE results with physical test

Keywords: CATIA V5, HYPERMESH v11, EPS, Ls-Dyna, ASTM D880.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0405109