Modeling of Modified Vehicle Crashworthiness using a Double Compound Pendulum

Vehicle crash modeling has been a challenge for researchers for several decades. Occupant injury prevention and prediction is a critical area within vehicle safety design. The modeling of material failure in structural members during a full frontal crash has been presented in this paper. This study presents a Lumped Parameter Model (LPM) with an elastic double compound pendulum replicating the impact kinematics. The model defined using Lagrangian formulation; presents a novel methodology to represent material fracture caused due to heat affected zones or welding in Ultra High Strength Steels (UHSS) in a non-linear crash event. The material fracture leads to rotation of the vehicle; presente…

How to succeed with volunteers on the basis of commitment and ownership

Organising a multidisciplinary student organisation face challenges in regards to student engagement,ownership and commitment. This article will discuss key factors to create commitmentand ownership in volunteer organisations. The identified factors are 1) an engaged core group ofambassadors who spread motivation, passion and drive, 2) build relations across departments andlevel of responsibility to lower the threshold to share ideas, give feedback and ask for advice, 3)expedient and communicated organisational structure that divides responsibility and ensures collaboration,and 4) clear individual and personal incentive to participate. These factors will increaseyour likelihood of success w…

The culture of product development in student organisations

Product development in a multidisciplinary student organisation brings many challenges; varyingexperience, adaptation and involvement of members. This article will discuss how a multidisciplinarystudent project maintains a learning culture for product development and project management.The identified factors for a learning culture; 1) define product specifications, 2) involvealumnis, 3) facilitate an open minded culture for failure and learning and 4) collect experience andadapt an agile framework suitable for the project. These are factors that should be an implementedpart to increase the chances of maintaining a learning culture.Align Racing UiA, the case of this study, is a student organ…

Rapid Diagnosis of Induction Motor Electrical Faults using Convolutional Autoencoder Feature Extraction