Impact Behavior and Pedestrian Protection of Automotive Laminated Windshield Theories, Experiments and Numerical Simulations /

• Main Authors: Xu, Jun (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Li, Yibing (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Automotive engineering.; Mechanics.; Structural materials.; Engineering design.; Automotive Engineering.; Classical Mechanics.; Structural Materials.; Engineering Design.

This book addresses one of the most important components for pedestrian safety in vehicles - laminated windshields. It includes detailed real-world material characterization results for laminated glass and testing methodologies, constitutive models, and step-by-step numerical simulation modeling and...

Table of Contents:

• Background
• Manufacturing of automotive laminated windshield
• Mechanical behavior of the laminated glass
• Constitutive modeling of laminated glass
• Crack initiation and propagation in laminated glass upon the small mass impact
• Full-scale PVB laminated windshield impact experiment by headform
• Numerical simulation on the crack propagation in laminated windshield
• Numerical modeling of the PVB laminated windshield
• Pedestrian protection and energy dissipation of laminated windshield
• Accident reconstruction based on the debris on laminated windshield upon human head impact
• Concluding remarks.