Abstract
The improvement of side impact protection is today a major concern to the crashworthiness community. A prerequisite for making this development possible is the establishment of a common side impact test method, representative of several traffic environments. Volvo has made a study aimed at determining the suitability of a moving barrier test as a tool for the development of side impact protection.Future work at Volvo will include further accident investigations, improvement investigations, improvement of measurement techniques development of subsystem testing, and evaluation of different MDB front faces in terms of force- crush characteristics.