Research Article
Application of Fractional Calculus to Frontal Crash Modeling
Figure 5
(a) Displacement during all three phases of impact for the model with two fractional viscoelastic rods; dashed line experimental [6], continuous line equations (26) and (27) for the first phase, (26)1, (32), and (33) for the second phase, and (26)1, (32)1, and (36) for the third phase; (b) displacement during all three phases of impact for the model with two standard linear viscoelastic rods, that is, for .
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