Affiliations: [a] School of Mechanical Engineering, North China University of Water Resource and Electric Power, Zhengzhou, China
| [b] School of Mechanical and Precision Instrument Engineering, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an, China
| [c] Engine Process Department, Ningbo Geely Royal Engine Components Co., LTD, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
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Corresponding author. Haichao Liu, School of Mechanical Engineering, North China University of Water Resource and Electric Power, Zhengzhou, China. E-mail: dahai9915@163.com.
Abstract: With the continuous spread of COVID-19 epidemic, the strict control of personnel makes it a problem to optimize the design of vehicle parameters after field measurement. The energy absorption characteristics and deformation mode of the front structure of the vehicle determine the acceleration or force response of the vehicle body during the impact, which plays an important role in occupant protection. The traditional multi-objective optimization method is to transform multi-objective problems into single objective optimization problems through weighted combination, objective planning, efficiency coefficient and other methods. This method requires a strong prior knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to combine the experimental design with the Multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimization (MPSO) method to achieve the optimization of the crash worthiness of automobile structure. This method can effectively overcome the defect of low precision caused by the conventional response surface method in the whole design space. In this paper, the multi-objective particle swarm optimization method is applied to the research of Crash worthiness optimization of automobile structure, which expands the application field of the multi-objective particle swarm optimization method, and also has a very big role in the optimization of other complex systems. It can be seen from the experiment that the speed of multi-objective particle swarm optimization is much faster than that of other methods. Only 100 iterations can get the relative better results. The case study on the front structure of a car shows that the method has a good result. It is of great significance to apply the method to the optimization design of the crash worthiness of the car structure to improve the crash safety of the car under the influence of COVID-19 epidemic.
