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Secondary Mass Changes in Vehicle Design Report

Vehicle design engineers intuitively know that an unplanned mass increase in a component during vehicle design has a ripple effect throughout the vehicle; subsystems need to be resized to function with this additional mass. This further increases vehicle mass even...

High Strain Rate Recommended Test Procedure

This download includes the following files in one Zip archive (>lMB). Round Robin Results Recommended Practice Please keep in mind that this work resulted in a new ISO standard, ISO26203-1.  Please refer to the ISO standard for proper testing procedure....

Mass Reduction Report

Vehicles have historically been predominately made from conventional steel. Competition of OEMs and governmental demands for safer, lighter and more fuel economic cars led to the market entry of new materials such as new high-strength steels or aluminium. In this...