Safety requirements for new train cars in Great Britain call for a crash or crumple zone to absorb the impact of a collision. But designing a working crash zone is no small feat. It must be strong ...

This paper describes the development of a three-dimensional lumped-mass structure and dummy model to study barrier-to-car side impacts. The test procedures utilized to develop model input data are ...

This paper gives a review of mathematical results of existence and uniqueness of solutions to problems of linear elasticity involving friction. Static, steady sliding and quasi-static problems are ...

Keywords: IDARC2D Version 7.0. Inelastic damage analyses. Analytical models. Frame structures. Hysteretic models. Structural element models. Hysteretic models ...