The seminar was held in three sessions. Crash-worthiness—the degree to which a vehicle will protect its occupants from the effects of an accident—was presented on the second session. Prof. Dr. Tatacipta Dirgantara (Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering Program of ITB) with the topic “Development of Crash Box: Energy Absorber Component of Vehicles” systematically explained the output of his collaborative research with five other professors in Lightweight Structures Research Groups of FTMD, the Crash Box Designer software. The software features theoretical, numeric, and experiment to enhance efficiency and suppress the cost of changing the shape of design crash box. Moreover, all the user has to do is enter the data/type of the car.

“The software has been validated and collaborated with extensive modeling data. During the experiment, we compared the absorbance of single wall, double wall, foam filled and top hat crash boxes,” said Tatacipta.

The seminar ended with a research presentation on atmospheric corrosion in various places in Indonesia by Mr. Dedy Asdiawan (PT JFE Steel Galvanizing Indonesia). Exchanges in Information, technology and academic culture between international industry practitioners and education institution such as ITB is definitely desirable. ITB is expected to maintain cooperation with JFE Steel in development research on Material.