Chevrolet Luv pickup truck weight reduction baseline dat. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

An improved representation of vehicle incompatibility in frontal NCAP tests using a modified rigid barrier

With the objective of better understanding the significance of New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) tests conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), head-on collisions between two identical cars of different sizes and between cars and a pickup truck are studied in the present paper using LS-DYNA models. Available finite element models of a compact car (Dodge Neon), midsize car (Dodge Intrepid), and pickup truck (Chevrolet C1500) are first improved and validated by comparing theanalysis-based vehicle deceleration pulses against corresponding NCAP crash test histories reported by NHTSA. In confirmation of prevalent perception, simulation-bascd results indicate that an NCAP test against a rigid barrier is a good representation of a collision between two similar cars approaching each other at a speed of 56.3 kmph (35 mph) both in terms of peak deceleration and intrusions. However, analyses carried out for collisions between two incompatible vehicles, such as an Intrepid or Neon against a C1500, point to the inability of the NCAP tests in representing the substantially higher intrusions in the front upper regions experienced by the cars, although peak decelerations in cars arc comparable to those observed in NCAP tests. In an attempt to improve the capability of a front NCAP test to better represent real-world crashes between incompatible vehicles, i.e., ones with contrasting ride height and lower body stiffness, two modified rigid barriers are studied. One of these barriers, which is of stepped geometry with a curved front face, leads to significantly improved correlation of intrusions in the upper regions of cars with respect to those yielded in the simulation of collisions between incompatible vehicles, together with the yielding of similar vehicle peak decelerations obtained in NCAP tests.

Otimização de sistema de roteirização de coleta de resíduos sólidos domiciliares urbanos utilizando ferramentas computacionais.

A operação de coleta e transporte de resíduos sólidos urbanos é indispensável dentro de quaisquer sistema de limpeza urbana. É necessário que se intensifique a pesquisa nessa área de conhecimento afim de produzir-se material de auxílio ao poder público municipal e o setor privado. Deste modo o objetivo geral deste trabalho é o estudo da utilização de ferramentas computacionais para a otimização dos roteiros dos serviços de coleta de resíduos sólidos domiciliares. Foi feito um comparativo entre os itinerários percorridos pelos caminhões de coleta quando dimensionados de forma empírica e quando dimensionados com o auxílio de ferramentas computacionais. Verificou-se as vantagens e desvantagens de cada modelo de dimensionamento e o grande potencial de redução de custos quando utilizadas ferramentas computacionais.

Occupant response and vehicle acceleration in a 30 mph frontal impact test - 1981 Chevrolet C10 Custom Deluxe Fleetside-Pickup - NHTSA 810601. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Passenger Vehicle Research, Washington, D.C.

Motorhome and pickup camper safety /

DOT HS 803 025.

Unwarranted delays by the department of Transportation to improve light truck safety.

Mode of access: Internet.

Motorhome and pickup camper safety.

Mode of access: Internet.

Survey of suspension systems on pickup trucks used to carry slide-in campers II - volume 16. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Curbside pickup and delivery operations and arterial traffic impacts /

Mode of access: Internet.

Catalogs of Michigan-based motor truck companies.

Mode of access: Internet.

Heavy truck suspension optimization based on modified skyhook damping control

This paper presents a multi-objective optimization strategy for heavy truck suspension systems based on modified skyhook damping (MSD) control, which improves ride comfort and road-friendliness simultaneously. A four-axle heavy truck-road coupling system model was established using functional virtual prototype technology; the model was then validated through a ride comfort test. As the mechanical properties and time lag of dampers were taken into account, MSD control of active and semi-active dampers was implemented using Matlab/Simulink. Through co-simulations with Adams and Matlab, the effects of passive, semi-active MSD control, and active MSD control were analyzed and compared; thus, control parameters which afforded the best integrated performance were chosen. Simulation results indicated that MSD control improves a truck’s ride comfort and roadfriendliness, while the semi-active MSD control damper obtains road-friendliness comparable to the active MSD control damper.

Prediction of highway truck conveyance configuration under over-limit prohibition and conveyance equilibrium

Aiming at the shortage of prevailing prediction methods about highway truck conveyance configuration in over-limit freight research that transferring the goods attributed to over-limit portion to another fully loaded truck of the same configuration and developing the truck traffic volume synchronously, a new way to get accumulated probability function of truck power tonnage in basal year by highway truck classified by wheel and axle type load mass spectrum investigation was presented. Logit models were used to forecast overall highway freight diversion and single cargo tonnage diversion when the weight rules and strict of enforcement intensity of overload were changed in scheme year. Assumption that the probability distribution of single truck loadage should be consistent with the probability distribution of single goods freighted, the model describes the truck conveyance configuration in the future under strict over-limit prohibition. The model was used and tested in Highway Over-limit Research Project in Anhui by World Bank.