Safety belt buckle inertial responses in laboratory and crash tests.

Author(s)
Moffatt, E.A. Thomas, T.M. & Cooper, E.R.
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Abstract

Laboratory testing measured the response of a 1984 Chevrolet S-10 Blazer seat belt buckle to impact on the back of the buckle. The peak acceleration, pulse duration and webbing tension were recorded to map the unique circumstances necessary to inertially unlatch the buckle. The conditions necessary to inertially unlatch the buckle in the laboratory were compared with the measured buckle responses in fifteen sled tests and rollover crash tests using anthropometric dummies. All of the crash tested buckles remained latched and all had the dynamic response well below those required to produce inertial unlatching. Dummy hip areas were measured to be significantly stiffer than humans. Buckle accelerations measured humans. Buckle accelerations measured in the "parlor trick" of intentionally striking the hip with a buckle are not representative of crash conditions. (A)

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C 3787 (In: C 3769) /84 /91 / IRRD 875186
Source

In: Advances in occupant protection technologies for the mid-nineties : papers presented at the International Congress and Exposition, Detroit, Michigan, February 27 - March 2, 1995, SP-1077, SAE technical paper No. 950887, p. 193-210, 17 ref.

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