Crashworthiness

Crashworthiness is an automotive engineering attribute that quantifies a vehicle's capacity to protect occupants and minimize injury through controlled energy absorption and structural integrity preservation during collision impact events.

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Citations

7.4K

Authors

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Publications per year

2017–2026

882

Parents

Automotive Engineering

Children

Airbag SystemsBumper System DesignCompatibility In Vehicle CollisionsCrash Energy ManagementCrash SimulationCrash Test DummiesEnergy Absorption StructuresImpact MechanicsOccupant KinematicsOccupant Protection

Publications

3.4K

A Proposed Injury Threshold for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Liying Zhang, King H. Yang, Albert I. King · Journal of Biomechanical Engineering · 2004 · 942 citations

Public Health, Injury Prevention, Crashworthiness +14

On the crashworthiness performance of thin-walled energy absorbers: Recent advances and future developments

Ahmad Baroutaji, M. Sajjia, A.G. Olabi · Thin-Walled Structures · 2017 · 672 citations · Full text

Engineering, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering +17

A comprehensive failure model for crashworthiness simulation of aluminium extrusions

H. Hooputra, Helmut Gese, Harry Dell et al. · International Journal of Crashworthiness · 2004 · 653 citations

Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering +17

Characteristics of crashes attributed to the driver having fallen asleep

Allan I Pack, Allan I Pack, Andrew M. Pack et al. · Accident Analysis & Prevention · 1995 · 513 citations · Full text

Public Health, Injury Prevention, Crashworthiness +15

A comparative study of metamodeling methods for multiobjective crashworthiness optimization

Hongbing Fang, Masoud Rais‐Rohani, Z. Liu et al. · Computers & Structures · 2005 · 475 citations

Architecture, Computational Engineering, Systems Engineering +14

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Authors

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Qing Li
The University of Sydney, Australia
47 publications · 6.5K citations
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Guangyong Sun
Hunan University, China
41 publications · 5.5K citations
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Shujuan Hou
Hunan University, China
22 publications · 2.9K citations
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David C. Viano
General Motors (United States), United States
37 publications · 1.2K citations
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Hampton C. Gabler
Virginia Tech, United States
28 publications · 877 citations
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Thin-Walled Structures
131 publications · 9.9K citations
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SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series
384 publications · 12.3K citations
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International Journal of Crashworthiness
259 publications · 8K citations
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The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care
93 publications · 4.6K citations
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Composite Structures
49 publications · 4.3K citations
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See also Crashworthiness
Evaluation	Finite Element Analysis Explicit Time Integration Multi-body Dynamics Scale Model Testing Crash Testing Crash Test Dummies Structural Deformation
Core Methods	Crumple Zones Numerical Simulation Biomechanical Simulation Multi-objective Optimization Surrogate Modeling Latin Hypercube Sampling Stepwise Regression Hyper-heuristics Finite Element Analysis Artificial Intelligence Recurrent Neural Networks
Benchmarks	Crash Test Dummies
Applications	Crumple Zones