Abstract
Since the European Experimental Vehicle Committe (EEVC) has proposed new side impact procedure, car designers should consider improving crashworthiness not only for the NHTSA side impact but also for the proposed EEVC side impact. This paper presents a computer simulation of passenger car structure and occupant in the European side impact. The simulation is done by LS-DYNA3D on Cray T -94 to calculate the deformation and movement of the structure and dummy injury criteria. The purpose of the analysis is to find ways of reducing door and B-pillar velocities and deformation, as these data are related to dummy injury criteria. From the result we have proposed the effective structure modified for the European side impact.