MECA0495-1 : Introduction to vehicle safety and body structure design

Study Programmes 2015-2016

MECA0495-1

Introduction to vehicle safety and body structure design

Duration :

15h Th, 10h Pr

Number of credits :

Master in electrical engineering (120 ECTS)		2
Master in electrical engineering (120 ECTS)		2
Master in electro-mechanical engineering (120 ECTS)		2
Master in electro-mechanical engineering (120 ECTS)		2
Master in mechanical engineering (120 ECTS)		2
Master in mechanical engineering (120 ECTS)		2
Certificate in sustainable automotive engineering		2

Lecturer :

Language(s) of instruction :

English language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Course contents :

Introduction to safety systems in automobiles and road infrastructures:

Parti I Structural design of carbodies

Part II: Passive and active safety

The societal challenge of safety
Introduction to collision mechanics and crashworthiness
Accident severity indices on human bodies
Introduction to crash simulation
Numerical methods: lectures on the problems/solutions related to the numerical simulations of automotive crashworthiness.
Analytical methods: introduction to analytical models of impact problems.
Active safty systems including ADAS systems
Road safety systems
Front-end integration & low speed damageability
Crash tests

Learning outcomes of the course :

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

The lecture is given in English in one week in December at the Campus Automobile in Spa-Francorchamps