The European New Car Assessment Programme: A historical review

Abstract

Established in 1997, the European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP) provides consumers with a safety performance assessment for the majority of the most popular cars in Europe. Thanks to its rigorous crash tests, Euro NCAP has rapidly become an important driver safety improvement to new cars. After ten years of rating vehicles, Euro NCAP felt that a change was necessary to stay in tune with rapidly emerging driver assistance and crash avoidance systems and to respond to shifting priorities in road safety. A new overall rating system was introduced that combines the most important aspects of vehicle safety under a single star rating. The overall rating system has allowed Euro NCAP to continue to push for better fitment and higher performance for vehicles sold on the European market. In the coming years, the safety rating is expected to play an important role in the support of the roll-out of highly automated vehicles.

Conceptual design and analysis of a car bumper using finite element method

“…Considering the basic design modifications are then made in the original design such that the front bumper grills are replaced with different honeycomb model designs. Crash analysis is carried out according to NCAP regulations and safety standards (Van Ratingen et al, 2016) (Afripin et al, 2019). Finite element analysis is carried out using Ansys 18.0 (Chethan & Ogulcan et al, 2020) .…”

“…In the computational studies, the barrier is set to be rigid and the bumper model is set to be hitting the target at 64 kmph (Van Ratingen et al, 2016) and the required information is collected utilizing ANSYS 19.0. It is critical in investigating the effects to recognize the diverse outcomes of effects that occur, impacts like plastic and elastic are both to be evaluated.…”

“…Wall is considered as a rigid body and fixed in all directions. The bumper model is given a velocity of 64 Kmph in the direction of the rigid wall (Van Ratingen et al, 2016). The velocity is kept constant for all the…”

Application of advanced engineering methods in studying a road traffic event between a 12-wheeler truck and a small tourism in a local junction from Cluj-Napoca

“…However, motor vehicle crashes remain one of the top leading causes of death for children. Today, computer-aided engineering is an essential part of vehicle development and it is anticipated that safety assessments will increasingly rely on simulations [2].…”

“…The overall rating system has allowed Euro NCAP to continue to push for better fitment and higher performance for vehicles sold on the European market. In the coming years, the safety rating is expected to play an important role in the support of the roll-out of highly automated vehicles [2].…”