Materials Database

IFAM Fraunhofer created within EVPSN2 a database on passive safety related materials and material models. Within APSN, iIt is aimed at becoming an information source for all those who have a special interest in new materials for passive safety related applications. The database provides a structured access to materials data as well as contacts to entities developing or working with these, and thus a gateway to in-depth information. It provides design engineers with the required database for calculations and materials models.

At this stage, the following groups of materials are represented in the database:

• Metal foams,
• Rigid and soft polymer foams,
• Rubbers and foams for car crash dummies.

It is clearly not the purpose of the database to supply e.g. a design engineer with data that is detailed enough and provided in a format which allows direct transfer to an FEM program. Instead, the aim is to inform about special materials, which will very often still be in a development phase or just have entered the market, in a way that may serve the above-mentioned design engineer to derive first estimates from the data given. These estimates should be suitable for him to decide whether the path he has chosen by evaluating this specific material is worth pursuing. If the answer to this question is in the affirmative, the database would provide him with contact details and thus guide him to the expert who may furnish him with in-depth information.

Interested in participating: please fill in the database questionnaire (help yourself with these description and example) and send it to Mr Dirk Lehmhus at IFAM Fraunhofer!