The effectiveness of Q6 and PIPER 6-year-old models on quantification of the change of child sitting posture with AEB and its impact on child's injures in frontal crash.

Objective: Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) has a direct impact on the effectiveness of the restraint systems in providing protection toward child occupants. The objective is to evaluate the effectiveness of Q6 and PIPER 6-year-old models in predicting the kinematic responses of child models, and further to quantify and analyze the child injuries during a frontal crash with and without AEB.

Methods: The finite element model of a booster seat has been validated through a full vehicle test.

Inverse Identification and Design of Thermal Parameters of Woven Composites through a Particle Swarm Optimization Method.

Designing thermal conductivity efficiently is one of the most important study fields for taking the advantages of woven composites. This paper presents an inverse method for the thermal conductivity design of woven composite materials. Based on the multi-scale structure characteristics of woven composites, a multi-scale model of inversing heat conduction coefficient of fibers is established, including a macroscale composite model, mesoscale fiber yarn model, microscale fiber and matrix model.

Targeting the finite-deformation response of wavy biological tissues with bio-inspired material architectures.

The Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm driven by a homogenized-based model is employed to target the response of three types of heart-valve chordae tendineae with different stiffening characteristics due to different degrees of waviness of collagen fibril/fiber bundles. First, geometric and material parameters are identified through an extensive parametric study that produce excellent agreement of the simulated response based on simplified unit cell architectures with the actual response of the complex biological tissue. These include amplitude and wavelength of the crimped chordae microstructure, elastic moduli of the constituent phases, and degree of microstructural refinement of the stiff phase at fixed volume fraction whose role in the stiffening response is elucidated.