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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2008
Michael Brusoe, Belleville, MI (US);
Michael Brusoe, Belleville, MI (US);
Continental Automotive Systems US, Inc., Auburn Hills, unknown;
Abstract
A method is provided for simulating a vehicle crash on a fuel delivery module of a vehicle. The fuel delivery module () has a flange () constructed and arranged to be coupled to a fuel tank, a fuel pump () for delivering fuel from the tank and through the flange, a reservoir () housing the fuel pump, and strut rods (). Each strut rod has an end coupled to the reservoir or fuel pump and another end coupled to the flange at an interface. The method models a fuel tank associated with the fuel delivery module as a rigid or elastic shell. A solid model of the fuel delivery module is created. The solid model is meshed to create a finite element model. Fluid in the fuel tank is modeled with Lagrangian or arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian finite elements, or smoothed particle hydrodynamics particles. Solid fluid interactions are added to the meshed solid model. A vehicle crash simulation is run on the solid model together with the fluid interactions to determine the effect of the fluid interactions on the interface of each strut rod with the flange and to determine any effect on the flange.