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Effect of heat-treatment on crash performance in bumper beam and crash box design and optimization of the system

  • İsmail Öztürk ORCID logo EMAIL logo and Burak Sercan Kaya

    Burak Sercan Kaya was born 1993 in Malatya, Turkey. He is a graduate student in Automotive Engineering Department at Pamukkale University, Denizli, Turkey. His research interests are vehicle crashworthiness and vehicle bumper beam optimization.

Published/Copyright: June 8, 2022
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Abstract

Within the study’s scope, impact analyses of homogeneous bumper beam-crash box systems designed from AA6063-O, AA6063-T5, and AA6063-T6 materials and hybrid systems designed from combinations of these materials were made and compared in terms of energy absorption values. In designs where failure does not occur, the highest energy absorption value was obtained using the AA6063-T5 bumper beam and AA6063-O crash box system, and single and multi-objective optimization studies were conducted using this design. The optimal bumper system improved the crash performance of the structure. Accordingly, this bumper system can be used in vehicles to improve crashworthiness.


Corresponding author: İsmail Öztürk, Faculty of Technology, Department of Automotive Engineering, Pamukkale University, Denizli 20160, Turkey, E-mail:

About the author

Burak Sercan Kaya

Burak Sercan Kaya was born 1993 in Malatya, Turkey. He is a graduate student in Automotive Engineering Department at Pamukkale University, Denizli, Turkey. His research interests are vehicle crashworthiness and vehicle bumper beam optimization.

Acknowledgment

The authors would like to express sincere thanks and appreciation to ST Engineering for the Altair HyperWorks license.

  1. Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.

  2. Research funding: None declared.

  3. Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.

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Published Online: 2022-06-08
Published in Print: 2022-06-27

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