SIMULATION OF MOTORCYCLE CRASH SCENARIO USING MULTIBODY SOFTWARE LMS VIRTUAL.LAB

Abstract

With the enriching of technology and decreasing of the manufacturing costs for Powered Two Wheelers (PTW), more and more models with ever increasing power are available for the youngsters and this fact combined with the lack of experience and the desire for speed of the referred group lead to an escalading number of accidents. This is raising the need for conducting more realistically simulations in a virtual environment in order to correctly asses the injury risk and to create better active/passive safety systems for PTW and protection gear for the riders. This research focuses on the modeling and process integration to analyze PTW pre-crash/crash scenarios. Based on the existing MBS (Multi-Body Systems) virtual simulation environment, one of the most typical PTW crash scenario have been analyzed and recreated according to ISO standard regarding PTW crashes. In order to get an insight into the accident pattern, a frontal crash is used with an average speed of 40 km/h. The research work is made with the aim to provide a significant contribution to the reduction of motorcycle fatalities and injuries on European roads.