Computer simulation is an essential tool in the development process of childseats, particularly when it comes to ensuring the safety of child passengers.As awareness regarding child passenger safety continues to grow, the use ofsuitable materials in the development of child seats becomes increasinglycrucial. Numerical simulations play a vital role throughout the entiredevelopment phase, enabling accurate analysis and evaluation. Toeffectively reduce development costs and time, it is imperative to have amaterial model that accurately predicts the behavior of materials innumerical simulations. This enables optimized performance of child seatswhile maintaining safety standards. The objective of the thesis is to implement a standard procedure forextracting material data for numerical modelling of foam materials andvalidating it. In this study, material models available in LS-DYNA, such asMAT_083 and MAT_057 for foam materials, are utilized along withcompression test data to create the material model. The model is furtherenhanced by optimizing the material parameters to establish a correlationbetween the test and simulation results. The improved material model is thenvalidated by comparing it with the impact drop test results. However,THULE's current impact drop test equipment is not considered accurate orefficient, and addressing this issue is one of the main objectives of thisthesis. Within this thesis, the identified problems are thoroughly examined,and suitable solutions are proposed to ensure the accurate extraction ofmaterial data and its validation, particularly when introducing new foammaterials.

A park lock is a mechanism used to prevent unintentional movement of the vehicle. A failure in the proper function of this mechanism can lead to the safety concerns of an automobile. The main focus of this thesis is to understand the reason behind the failure of the park lock mechanism by FEM analysis in ANSA. For this, temperature build up during the park lock engagement has been studied in a dynamic explicit analysis. The FE results are compared to results from experiments on park lock. The modelling has been done in ANSA, ABAQUS was used as a solver for simulation and the results have been studied in META. The results indicate that there is a rise in the temperature. This is due to the friction between the contact surfaces and the oscillations generated in the vehicle. Based on the observations, discussions and conclusions are formulated and the research questions are answered.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2017-01-04T11:17:29Z No. of bitstreams: 1 daniellerosanydemedeirosleal.pdf: 19032116 bytes, checksum: 03bebf3d76cd23f21fc6a647e7c00d77 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Diamantino Mayra (mayra.diamantino@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-01-31T10:32:59Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 daniellerosanydemedeirosleal.pdf: 19032116 bytes, checksum: 03bebf3d76cd23f21fc6a647e7c00d77 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-01-31T10:32:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 daniellerosanydemedeirosleal.pdf: 19032116 bytes, checksum: 03bebf3d76cd23f21fc6a647e7c00d77 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-29 / Este trabalho apresenta um novo esquema explícito de marcha no tempo para a análise problemas de propagação de ondas compatível com qualquer método de discretização espacial que seja baseado em elementos (e.g., Método dos Elementos Finitos, etc.). Por ser explícito, isto é, sem necessidade da solução de um sistema de equações, o método é de fácil implementação. Baseado em integradores de tempo adaptativos, a técnica aqui proposta contempla dissipação numérica local e otimizada, permitindo a minimização de oscilações espúrias e aumento da precisão. Também, com o emprego de discretização temporal local (subciclagem), acrescenta-se robustez ao algoritmo do método, flexibilizando a estabilidade e aumentando a eficiência da análise em foco. / This work presents a new explicit time marching procedure for wave propagation problems, which is compatible with any spatial discretization method based on elements (e.g. Finite Element Method - FEM, etc.). Because it does not require any system of equations to be solved, its implementation is very simple. Based on adaptive time integrators, it provides local and optimized numerical damping, allowing the influence of spurious oscillations to be minimized, improving accuracy. In addition, by employing local time discretization, considering a subclycing technique, the performance to the method is improved, enhancing the flexibility of the method regarding stability and increasing the efficiency of the proposed approach.