Digitally Controlled Servo-Hydraulic Crash Simulator

Joe Albright; John Beal; Randy Ellis; Byron Saari; Dick Strand

doi:10.4271/2000-01-0048

The value of crash simulation has long been recognized by carmakers as an essential tool for vehicle development and certification programs. Driven by the need to minimize time-to-market for new models, cost reduction, and by consumer demand for safer cars and trucks, the industry is moving to newer technologies in crash simulation. Crash simulation provides an inexpensive means to quickly simulate the effects of a barrier crash by reproducing its basic elements - acceleration, velocity and displacement - in a nondestructive test. Crash event timing and accuracy of reproduction are critical performance factors.

This paper describes the unique features and capabilities offered by a new generation of crash simulators.

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Digitally Controlled Servo-Hydraulic Crash Simulator 2000-01-0048

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