Papers by Keyword: Hybrid Modelling

Abstract: Motor vehicle crashes have become the leading cause of death for children in many developed countries and the trend is on the rise in Malaysia. Child anatomy and physiology necessitates a separate restraints system to be implemented during vehicle travel. Although approximately twice as many crashes with a child fatality are frontal compared to lateral, it is shown that side impacts are nearly twice as likely to result in a child fatality as frontal impacts. Due to the complexity and the highly non-linear nature of vehicle crash affecting occupants, much work still remains to be looked into. This is especially so in the study of injury mechanisms towards efforts of improving CRS design as well as vehicle parameters that may offer more effective and robust injury mitigation. The study here presents a methodology which outlines the development and testing of a simulation model where a 3 year old child, restrained in a CRS within a vehicle, is subjected to lateral side impact by a bullet vehicle. A combined environment of both Finite Element as well as Multi-body is used for the model development. A HYBRID III dummy model is used to represent the child while an FE model is used for the CRS model. A hybrid modelling method is utilized for the belt harness system. The model and simulation conditions are set based on the global FMVSS standard. Head injury criterion and Neck injury criterion are primarily considered in the model assessment. Model development as well as validation steps are presented with discussion of the model’s salient features for greater insights in the study of injury mechanisms.

Abstract: Residual stress ,with the branch of type, size and direction, is defined as the stress state which exists in a body after all the external loads are removed [1].According to the mutual influence scope size,residual stress can be divided into macroscopic residual stress and micro residual stress. Cutting residual stress is mainly caused by mechanical stress, thermal stress and phase transformation.

Abstract: Mechanism method and neural network identification method are widely used for system modelling. Due to the complexity of actual investigated objects, models built with individual method are usually not good enough for the problems to be solved. Therefore, a hybrid modelling method based on mechanism and identification is presented in the paper. In the hybrid model, the mechanism model is applied as the fundamental model in order to ensure the overall coincidence performance and the identification model is adopted as the compensated model in order to ensure the accuracy performance. The developing process of the hybrid model of a marine turbo-charged diesel is demonstrated in detail in the paper. Testing result shows that the hybrid modelling method is very suitable for modelling complex investigated objects.

Abstract: In view of the bottleneck of the interfaces between Forward Engineering (FE) and Reverse Engineering (RE) softwares, the method of extracting feature for hybrid modeling of FE and RE is attempted to present based on secondary development for UG NX by using VC++. The method is proved through two simple surface modeling.