Real world collisions and appropriate barrier tests.

Author(s)
Thomas, P.
Year
Abstract

A slightly different version of this study is published in International Journal of Vehicle Design, 1995, Volume 16, Number 2/3, p. 179-93 (see IRRD 870142). This paper analyses the UK in-depth crash data collected under the Co-operative Crash Injury Study to identify the optimum crash conditions for an advanced frontal crash test procedure. The paper recommends that a revised frontal crash test should employ a crash test of at least 60 kph into a deformable block with at most a 40% overlap. This condition represents that of greatest risk of AIS 3+ injury. Frontal impacts are most frequently with other cars indicating that the deformable nature of a car should be simulated by a new frontal test procedure. (A)

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Library number
C 9331 (In: C 9195 [electronic version only]) /91 / IRRD 894984
Source

In: Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Technical Conference on Enhanced Safety of Vehicles ESV, Munich, Germany, May 23-26, 1994, Volume 2, Paper 94-s8-w-19, p. 1450-1460, 12 ref.

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