When it Comes to the Crunch: The Mechanics of Car CollisionsWorld Scientific, 1994 - 164 páginas This book explains how the car, as a structure, behaves in various types of accidents. In order to understand such behaviour the special features of car structures and the elementary physics of car collisions are explained. These ideas are the applied to roll-overs, side impacts, head-on collisions, etc. The reader is then shown how accidents can be analysed. The existing international rules for the design of car structures are also studied and it soon becomes apparent that these rules are inadequate in many respects. This is probably the main reason why racing drivers survive the severest accidents but many ordinary motorists do not survive crashes at one quarter of the speed. |
Contenido
5 | 26 |
4 | 45 |
Application of physics to car frontend collisions | 78 |
7 | 96 |
Lowvelocity Propertydamage Accidents | 107 |
Loose Objects in Cars | 119 |
Conclusion | 137 |
A few statistics about car crashes | 143 |
Preface vii | |
Preliminary 7 | 7 |
Classical Gauge Theory 30 | 30 |
Gauge Theory of Classical Gravity 70 | 70 |
The Higgs Feature of Classical Gravity 90 | 90 |
Gauge Theory of the Translation Group 105 | 105 |
Bibliography 117 | 117 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
When It Comes to the Crunch: The Mechanics of Car Collisions Noel W Murray Vista previa limitada - 1995 |
Términos y frases comunes
acceleration accident affine bundle atlas atlases average force bumper bundle coordinates bundle Ẽ bundle Eh bundle morphism canonical car's centre of mass Chapter coordinate expression cotangent bundle crash crush distance crush length deceleration defined deformation Dirac fermion Dirac operator dissipated driver energy equations fermion fields field h frame frontal gauge potentials gauge theory Given global section graph gravitational field group G Higgs field injury J¹E jet manifold Joules km/h Legendre linear load loose object Lorentz m/sec M₁ M₂ matter fields metric g Minkowski space multimomentum Hamiltonian form Newtons occupant cell principal bundle principal connection principal morphisms rear reduced subbundle Riemannian metric road roll-over roof seat seat-belt seatback side impact soldering form space-time speed spinor bundle spot-weld standard fibre structure group subbundle tangent bundle tetrad gravitational field transformations truck V₁ V₂ vector bundle vector field vehicle wheels windscreen world manifold