Crash Pulse and Dynamic Crush

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NAPARS Facebook post on Crash Pulse and Dynamic Crush

Reminded us of research we've done over the years on the implications of measured dynamic loading and unloading on the 'virtual crush properties' of crush/damage analysis like CRASH and other techniques.
see our papers

• 1986 "A Revised Damage Analysis Procedure for the CRASH Computer Program", McHenry & McHenry, SAE 861894, 30th Stapp Car Crash Conference
• 1997 "Effects of Restitution in the Application of Crush Coefficients", McHenry & McHenry, SAE 970960

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