The 16thInternational Forum of Automotive Traffic Safety (INFATS2019) was held on November 14 and 15. A total of 180 Chinese, American, French,Dutch, and German experts and scholars discussed the cutting-edge issues related to automobile safety.
Yang Jie, director of the Lightweight Department of the China Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE-China); Wan Xinming, general manager of the China Automotive Engineering Research Institute Co., Ltd.; and, Chen Wei, deputy secretary of the CPC HNU Committee, were present. Jiang Chao, standing committee member of the CPC HNU Committee and executive dean of HNU College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, presided over the opening ceremony.
Opening ceremony.
This forum was hosted by the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Design and Manufacturing for Vehicle Body, and State Key Laboratory of Vehicle NVH and Safety Technology. The INFAT was initiated by Zhong Zhihua, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) and professor of HNU, and Prof. Yang Jikuang of Chalmers University of Technology. It was firstly held in 2000, and has become China’s highest influential international academic conference on vehicle traffic security.
Chen Wei, deputy secretary of the CPC HNU Committee, delivers a speech.
Chen Wei stated that, HNU’s State Key Laboratory of Advanced Design and Manufacturing for Vehicle Body has conducted fruitful research on vehicle structure and optimization, and vehicle traffic safety and passenger damages. He hoped to take this forum as a platform of sharing and exploration, to enhance exchange and cooperation, accelerate vehicle traffic safety research and related engineering application, and fuel an all-round progress of vehicle traffic safety technologies in China.
Jiang Chao, standing committee member of the CPC HNU Committee and executive dean of HNU College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, presides over the opening ceremony
The participants presented their up-to-date research results, and exchanged views on such topics as: vehicle traffic accident investigation and automobile insurance; automobile safety technical standards and evaluation system; vehicle structure crashworthiness and new energy vehicle safety; passenger protection and injury biomechanics; and, intelligent connected vehicle safety and ADAS (advanced driving assistant system).
The forum venue
Prof. Jesse Ruan, senior technical expert of Ford Motor, SAE\ASME\AIMBE Fellow, and chief editor of theInternational Journal of Vehicle Safety; Prof. Junmin WANG from University of Texas at Austin; Euro-NCAP project manager Aled Wiliams; Yang Jie, director of the Lightweight Department of the China Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE-China); and, Wan Xinming, general manager of the China Automotive Engineering Research Institute Co., Ltd., made keynote reports.
Prof. Yang Jikuang of Chalmers University of Technology and Prof. Li Guangyao from HNU State Key Laboratory of Advanced Design and Manufacturing for Vehicle Body presided over the reports.
Five sub-forums were held, and 16 themed reports were delivered by prominent experts such as Prof. Michel Behr from France and Prof. Li Liang from Tsinghua University.
The forum received nearly 100 papers and collected 77 into conference proceedings. Nineteen papers were presented at the sub-forums. Twenty to thirty papers would be recommended to the partner journals includingInternational Journal of Computational Methods,International Journal of Vehicle Safety,China Journal of Highway and Transport, andJournal of Machine Design.
