Determining accelerations/DeltaV for locations other than the CG
Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2015 11:19 am
Determining accelerations/DeltaV for locations other than the Center of Gravity (CG)
- This topic is covered in detail in our 1997 paper "RICSAC-97 - A Reevaluation of the Reference Set of Full Scale Crash Tests", McHenry & McHenry, SAE Technical Paper No. 970961
- From Help->Getting Started
- ->Demos and tutorials section
->Smacthp with ricsac2- Here’s a link to the help file
- Be sure to rerun the msmac3D simulation during the collision with 0.001 output time increment and then you can run:
- Tools->smacthp
Select veh1 or veh2
Indicate an X,Y location
And start/end times (or use automatic)
- Tools->smacthp
- And FYI if you don’t know the exact location of either the accelerometer or the occupant you can try different locations and see how much it changes the max acceleration and the deltaV
- It can help demonstrate why occupants (or accelerometers) see different DeltaVs for different locations (and therefore different possible injuries)
- Different people experience different issues for the SAME accelerations
- Due to positional differences, the accelerations may be different, so the differences in injuries might be more dramatic.
- Of course there is a HUGE difference in accelerations/deltaVs in the event an occupant is in the crush zone, link a near side occupant in a side impact, where the deltaV for the occupant can be approaching the closing speed
- SMAC initially used the threshold of acceleration > 1 G to start DeltaV calculations and once it came back down below 1 G to end the DeltaV calculations.
- In initial development logic had to be added to handle momentary blips in the acceleration! Etc.
- Now that we’re working in 3D and we may have to rethink that logic
- weight transfer after a collision may extend the acceleration > 1 G longer
- What about the 1G threshold? Might we revisit that and make it lower? Or higher?
- ->Demos and tutorials section