During the past few years, the disparity in the structural design of light trucks and vans (LTVs) and passenger cars and the number of fatalities involved in these vehicles has become a growing concern among automobile ...

High strength-to-weight ratio, directional strength and stiffness are the significant factors, forcing polymer composites into the aerospace, marine and automotive industries. Due to these major factors fuel efficiency and ...

The field of multibody simulations has seen great strides in recent years. Most multibody simulations are carried out under the assumption that the joints involved are ideal. However many real joints are not ideal; they ...

Safety is of paramount importance to manufacturers of roadway vehicles. Although in the past few years much progress has been made in the field of passenger safety in cars, there is still a strong need for the design of a ...

Vehicle occupants involved in automobile side impact crashes are three times more likely to experience head injuries than occupants involved in frontal or other types of collisions. The most frequent contact source for ...

With an ever growing fleet of commercial airplanes utilizing composite structures, it is increasingly important to develop cost-effective and robust repair procedures. Issues invariably occur during on-site repair which ...

With current safety regulations, standards and safety equipment, commuters have never been safer while driving an automobile. An increasingly popular past time is to restore or repair antique and vintage automobiles that ...

This paper reviews theory and mechanisms of crevice corrosion as well as its prevention methods. Crevice corrosion is one of the most important and harmful forms of localized corrosion that may cause sudden failure of ...

The effects of cure temperature variation and hygrothermal conditioning on thermal, physical, and mechanical properties of an out-of-autoclave prepreg were investigated and correlated. To study the effects of cure temperature ...