Technical Session Schedule

Tuesday, April 16

Advanced Analysis, Design, and Optimization of Materials, Restraints, and Structures for Enhanced Automotive Safety and Weight Reduction (Part 1)
(Session Code: M103)

Room D0-06A  9:30 a.m.

Papers with an emphasis on, but not limited to, innovative ideas to enhance automotive safety with improved material constitutive modeling, analysis method developments, simulation and pre/post processing tools, optimization techniques, crash code developments, finite element model updating, model validation and verification techniques, dummies and occupants, restraint systems, passive safety as well as lightweight material applications and designs are highly encouraged.

Organizers - Jwo Pan, Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Tau Tyan, Ford Motor Co.; Guofei Chen, United States Steel Corp.; Wei Li, General Motors LLC; William J. Altenhof, Univ. of Windsor; Sheng-Dong Liu, Generalety LLC

Planned by Materials Modeling and Testing Committee / Materials Engineering Activity