the ability of a vehicle structure to withstand a crash
Derived forms
crashworthy (ˈcrashˌworthy)
adjective
crashworthiness in American English
(ˈkræʃˌwɜːrðinɪs)
noun
the ability of a car or other vehicle to withstand a collision or crash with minimal bodily injury to its occupants
Derived forms
crashworthy
adjective
Word origin
[1945–50; crash1 + -worthy + -ness]This word is first recorded in the period 1945–50. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: on-line, regression analysis, shootout, synchronized swimming, taxi squad-ness is a suffix attached to adjectives and participles, forming abstract nouns denotingquality and state. Other words that use the affix -ness include: forwardness, likeness, responsiveness, unpleasantness, wellness
Examples of 'crashworthiness' in a sentence
crashworthiness
Design for lightweight and crashworthiness remains a fairly challenging issue in vehicle industry.
Guangyong Sun, Huile Zhang, Guoxing Lu, Jianwen Guo, Junjia Cui, Qing Li 2017, 'An experimental and numerical study on quasi-static and dynamic crashing behaviorsfor tailor rolled blank (TRB) structures', Materials & Designhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264127516315982. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The industrial grade steel performed better although the conventional metrics of crashworthiness predicted otherwise.
Markus Bambach, Laura Conrads, Markus Daamen, Onur Güvenç, Gerhard Hirt 2016, 'Enhancing the crashworthiness of high-manganese steel by strain-hardening engineering,and tailored folding by local heat-treatment', Materials & Designhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264127516309637. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Results show that the proposed methods are effective for crashworthiness uncertainty analysis.
Ren Yiru, Xiang Jinwu 2014, 'Crashworthiness uncertainty analysis of typical civil aircraft based on Box–Behnkenmethod', Chinese Journal of Aeronauticshttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1000936114000909. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Crashworthiness of a civil airplane fuselage section was studied in this paper.
Liu Xiaochuan, Guo Jun, Bai Chunyu, Sun Xiasheng, Mou Rangke 2015, 'Drop test and crash simulation of a civil airplane fuselage section', Chinese Journal of Aeronauticshttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1000936115000230. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The crashworthiness of a railway vehicle relates to its passive safety performance.
Zhao Tang, Feng Jia Liu, Shi Hui Guo, Jian Chang, Jian Jun Zhang 2016, 'Evaluation of coupled finite element/meshfree method for a robust full-scale crashworthinesssimulation of railway vehicles', Advances in Mechanical Engineeringhttp://ade.sagepub.com/content/8/4/1687814016642954.full.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Sandwich structures are capable of absorbing large amounts of energy under impact loads which results in high structural crashworthiness.
Bělský Petr, Kadlec Martin 2018, 'Non-destructive Methods for Damage Assessment of Composite Sandwich Structures', MATEC Web of Conferenceshttps://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201818801008. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The effects of fibre direction, stacking sequence, layer thickness, and loading velocity on the crashworthiness characteristics are discussed.
Yong Xiao, Yefa Hu, Jinguang Zhang, Chunsheng Song, Xiangyang Huang, Jingui Yu, ZhaobingLiu 2018, 'The Bending Responses of Sandwich Panels with Aluminium Honeycomb Core and CFRP SkinsUsed in Electric Vehicle Body', Advances in Materials Science and Engineeringhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/5750607. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The effects of several key structural parameters on crashworthiness characteristics and collapse mechanism were first explored through the experiments here.
Guangyong Sun, Xintao Huo, Dongdong Chen, Qing Li 2017, 'Experimental and numerical study on honeycomb sandwich panels under bending and in-panelcompression', Materials & Designhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264127517307347. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)