Multilevel Vehicle Design: Fuel Economy, Mobility and Safety Considerations, Part B. Ground Vehicle Weight and Occupant Safety Under Blast Loading

Abstract

SUMMARY: Developed a modeling approach to evaluate structural and occupant responses to ground vehicle underbody blasts * Fit surrogate models to reduce computational expense * Demonstrated two optimization formulations and their results * Accounted for uncertainty in charge parameters * Quantified negative correlation between vehicle mass and occupant injury probability * Added floor padding to reduce tibia impact.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 11, 2010
Accession Number
ADA527740

Entities

People

  • Michael Kokkolaras
  • Panos Papalambros
  • Steven Hoffenson
  • Sudhakar Arepally

Organizations

  • United States Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Body Regions
  • Bone Fractures
  • Ground Vehicles
  • Information Operations
  • Lower Extremity
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Vehicles
  • Mobility
  • Multiobjective Optimization
  • Optimization
  • Probability
  • Stiffness
  • Uncertainty
  • Vehicle Design
  • Vehicles
  • Wounds And Injuries

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Explosive Engineering.