  In the automotive industry, thermoplastic polymers are used for a significant
number of interior and exterior parts. These components have to pass all
underlying crash and safety relevant tests, where a proper performance is
desired in the range of low to high ambient temperatures. Today, the vehicle
design is heavily aided by numerical simulation methods for advancing towards a
prototype free vehicle development. This requires an accurate modeling of the
temperature- and ratedependent, elasto-viscoplastic mechanical response of the
polymer structures. In this work, the validation of a novel elasto-viscoplastic
temperature-dependent material model is performed using glove box flap segments
subjected to impact loading by a spherical punch in a custom-build loading
frame. The proposed material model shows a very good prediction of the
experimental results.
