The Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Brawijaya again adds a new professor. He is Dr. Eng. Moh. Agus Choiron, S.T., M.T.

The lecturer who is also called Pak Choi was inaugurated in Samantha Krida Building UB on Tuesday, May 31, 2022, as the 16th Professor of FT and 165th in UB, and became the 293rd professor of all professors that have been inaugurated by UB.

In his scientific oration, he presented his work entitled “Engineering Design of Hexagonal Crash Box for Short Crushable Zone with Computer Simulation”.

A vehicle safety device with a good level of safety in the event of a collision. Much needed, especially the frontal direction. Located between the bumper and the frame. As an absorber of impact energy, in the event of a collision.

“It has a length of 120 mm. By computer simulation. Has been done effectively, on metal gaskets. The advantage is that accelerates development, with reduced trial and error. The weakness is the challenge of the complexity of the design form. So a precise manufacturing process is needed to produce the prototype,” explained Prof. Agus Choiron.

The making of Crash Box was motivated by the development of a very high number of vehicles. Especially in the passenger car segment.

Based on data from the Central Statistics Agency, the number of passenger cars increased by 6.1% with a total of 15,592,419 units in 2019 (BPS-Statistics, 2019).

Unfortunately, this increase is directly proportional to the high number of accidents in Indonesia, which reached 116,411 cases and tends to increase by 4.87% in 2019.

“Design engineering is aimed at meeting the needs of MPV cars. It is the best-selling vehicle in Indonesia. It has a short crushable zone so that the length of the crash box is designed to be 120-150 mm,” he said.

Furthermore, for cross-disciplinary design engineering, Prof. Agus Choiron has collaborated with the industry several times.

He continued, that he also wanted to enter the field of medical engineering. What he is currently developing is a CT-Scan data processing procedure connecting with CAD, Additive Manufacturing, and CAE Application Software.

He also produces jawbone reconstructions for material requirements and evaluations without orthopedic surgery.

“We hope that later we can cooperate with friends from medical engineering,” concluded this Mechanical Engineering lecturer.