Derivation and application of restraint survival distance in motor vehicle collisions.

Author(s)
MacLaughlin, T.F.
Year
Abstract

Restraint Survival Distance (RSD), a quantity used for determining potential occupant survival in a motor vehicle collision, is derived. The RSD depends upon the vehicle crash response, available occupant stroking distance (taking compartment intrusion into account) and assumptions regarding ideal restraint system performance. RSD calculations were performed for 17 passenger cars which were subjected to 30 mph barrier crash tests.

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B 18978 fo /91.1/
Source

Warrendale, PA, Society of Automotive Engineers SAE, 1981, 16 p., fig. graph., ref.; SAE Paper No. 810092.

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