Assessing the crashworthiness of a vehicle seat for rear and frontal impacts

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Autor principal: Silva, Rita de Cássia
Fecha de Publicación: 2019
Otros Autores: Flávio, Paulo Guilherme Marques, Oliveira, Alessandro Borges de Sousa
Formato: Article
Lenguaje: eng
Fuente: Repositório Institucional da UnB
Download full: https://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/36543
https://doi.org/10.1590/1679-78255262
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5022-8105
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9163-8610
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1298-4612
Sumario: A vehicle seat represents an automotive passive system because it limits the damage caused to passengers in the events of an accident or a crash. This way, the present work intends to evaluate the safety of an anchorage mechanism of a frontal vehicle driver seat considering two hazardous situations rear and frontal impacts. Performing a nonlinear FE in static and transient analyses provide the stress distribution in the main components of the mechanism, such as the inner track, the lock device and the bolts using Ansys®. Regulation Nº 17 from Un/ECE regulates the acceleration levels predicted in a crash test and therefore applied in the simulation. In addition, departing from a crash of 5g a fatigue analysis is carried out. From this particular analysis, it becomes possible to evaluate the actual safety of the vehicle seat after a minor crash.