Vehicle impact testing at MIRA.

Author(s)
Goodall, J.R. & Aston, T.R.
Abstract

This paper describes some of the background and development work which has led to the present indoor impact laboratory at MIRA. Although initially established to carry out routine barrier of complete Vehicles, its range is now being extended. Already a grooving proportion of its work includes specialised tests using a variety of sleds rather than vehicles. Further plans for the future include a new motor capable of accelerating 2-ton vehicles up to 50 mph, and modifications to run the motor in the opposite direction, so that more-complex impacts can be produced on an extended.

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Publication

Library number
A 2690 (In: A 2662)
Source

In: Transpo 1969 : the environmental aspects of transportation : papers presented at 3rd symposium of the Society of Environmental Engineers to mark its tenths anniversary, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, April 15/18, 1969, 14 p.

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