Patent ID: 7930154
Filing Date: 2011-04-19
Classification: G01M,G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of simulating a vehicle crash on a fuel delivery module of a vehicle, the fuel delivery module having 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 having one end coupled to the reservoir or fuel pump and another end coupled to the flange at an interface, the method comprising: modeling a fuel tank associated with the fuel delivery module as a rigid or elastic shell, creating a solid model of the fuel delivery module, meshing the solid model, adding solid fluid interactions to the meshed solid model by modeling the fluid and discretizing, and running a vehicle crash simulation 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.