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The Future of Road Crashes: Paving the path to safer roads

The Flexcrash project represents a pivotal step toward addressing these emerging challenges. The main goal of the project is to use hybrid manufacturing technologies to apply surface patterns using additive manufacturing, with either locally strengthening purposes for the not desired to deform parts, or locally weaken the parts to deform (Crashbox etc.) as well as integration of active systems to maintain mass reduction goals while maintaining safety requirements.

The Role of Standardization in Flexcrash project

As a result of the study of the standardisation landscape several standards relevant for the Flexcrash project have been found. They are specially to manufacturing processes such as welding and allied processes and additive manufacturing. Also, some technical committees have been identified as relevant and they can be grouped into four main areas:

Flexcrash: towards safer, lighter and circular crash-tolerant vehicles structures

What if vehicles could be both lighter and safer for the environment and passengers? Have you ever wondered if there’s a way to make vehicles stronger and lighter without compromising crash resistance and passengers’ safety? As the automotive industry faces increasing pressure to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and enhance passenger safety, innovation in lightweight…

Soft-Body Simulation and Procedural Content Generation for Simulating Realistic Car Crashes

Researchers from the IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems are working on the Flexcrash project to develop realistic crash scenarios and simulations of future traffic situations involving autonomous vehicles and human drivers. In the initial phase, driving scenarios extracted from publicly available databases will be fed into the soft-body simulator BeamNG.tech, a driving simulator specialising in realistic car crashes.