Effective weight-reduction- and crashworthiness-analysis of a vehicle’s battery-pack system via orthogonal experimental design and response surface methodology

Battery pack systems (BPSs) are one of the most critical systems in electric vehicles. They have a high impact on the final range of any electric vehicle and also affects a vehicle’s safety level. This means a lightweight battery pack enclosure (BPE) design is desirable for maintaining a long range and good safety level, but a good crashworthiness performance also needs to be sustained. In this study, a novel procedure which enables a...