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CHAPTER 5. CASE STUDY

Material law: Elasto-plastic for crash analysis and elastic for modal analysis.
Model options: Boundary conditions, rigid bodies, multiple nodes to one node constraint, dynamic loads, g-forces, gravity.
Key results: Stress distributions, displacements, natural frequencies and modal shapes.

5.2

Background information

Pre-processor, solver and post-processor software used:

ANSA: For the model mesh generation and other model geometric setups like weld
beads, rigid bodys, multiple nodes to one node constraint, springs, etc. .
Visual-Crash PAM: To set up the finite element model.
Analysis (PAM-CRASH explicit and implicit): To perform the crash simulation and the
modal analysis by the FEM.
Visual Viewer: Evaluating stress, deformations, natural frequencies and modal shapes
results.

5.3

Problem data and description

Units: kN, mm, kg, ms.

Description: Steel cross car beam structure with weld connections submitted to dynamic loading that simulate a frontal overlaped crash scenario.
Loading: Multiple loads on the structure simulating the impact and airbags explosion.
Material: FEP13 Steel (E = 205 kN /mm 2 (GPa) ; = 0.3; and = 7 .8 10 6
kg/mm3 ), [22]. For plasticity, the stress/plastic strain curve is defined in Table 5.1.
The FEP 13 hardening curve is defined in Figure 5.2. The BV226 parts material, available in the technical drawing (appendix 1), is not used in this analysis due to lack of
information.

5.3.1

Parts list

The BV226 model structure technical drawing is available in appendix 1. This cross car
beam FE model parts list is available in Table 5.2: