TY - JOUR
T1 - Automotive airbag inflator analysis using the measured properties of modern propellants
AU - Seo, Young D.
AU - Chung, Suk Ho
AU - Yoh, Jaiick
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: This work was supported by Hyundai Mobis Grant (0591-20080027) through BK21 Office and IAAT at Seoul National University.
PY - 2011/4
Y1 - 2011/4
N2 - An airbag is composed of a housing assembly, door assembly, cushion assembly, and an inflator. The inflator is an essential part that generates gas for the airbag. When an airbag is activated, it effectively absorbs the crash energy of the passenger by inflating a cushion. In the present study, tank tests were performed with newly synthesized propellants with various compositions, and the results are compared with the numerical results. In the simulation of the inflator, a zonal model has been adopted which consisted of four zones of flow regions: combustion chamber, filter, gas plenum, and discharge tank. Each zone was described by the conservation equations with specified constitutive relations for gas. The pressure and temperature of each zone of the inflator were calculated and analyzed, and the results were compared with the tank test data. The similarity of the pressure curve and closed bomb calculation show that the modeled results are well correlated with the experimental data. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.
AB - An airbag is composed of a housing assembly, door assembly, cushion assembly, and an inflator. The inflator is an essential part that generates gas for the airbag. When an airbag is activated, it effectively absorbs the crash energy of the passenger by inflating a cushion. In the present study, tank tests were performed with newly synthesized propellants with various compositions, and the results are compared with the numerical results. In the simulation of the inflator, a zonal model has been adopted which consisted of four zones of flow regions: combustion chamber, filter, gas plenum, and discharge tank. Each zone was described by the conservation equations with specified constitutive relations for gas. The pressure and temperature of each zone of the inflator were calculated and analyzed, and the results were compared with the tank test data. The similarity of the pressure curve and closed bomb calculation show that the modeled results are well correlated with the experimental data. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/561740
UR - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0016236111000020
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U2 - 10.1016/j.fuel.2010.12.042
DO - 10.1016/j.fuel.2010.12.042
M3 - Article
SN - 0016-2361
VL - 90
SP - 1395
EP - 1401
JO - Fuel
JF - Fuel
IS - 4
ER -