The Europen Experimental Vehicles Committee (EEVC) first proposed a Test Procedure for Side Impact protection at the Fifth ESV Conference. Since that time the test procedure has been further developed, a specification for a mobile deformable barrier (MDB) produced and a dummy specifically for use in lateral impacts has been developed. These have been reported at previous ESV Conferences. Over the last two years it has been possible to evaluate the test procedure because production prototypes of the dummy, EUROSID, and satisfactory examples of the deformable barrier face have been produced. EEVC Working Group 9 has been created to support the development of the test procedure, including the dummy and MDB face and to consider the implications of the use of component test procedures and mathematical modelling in legislative testing. This report decsribes the current status of the test procedure, including some results of tests performed to this procedure using the new dummy and the MDB faces and draws conclusions from these tests and tests comparing the EEVC and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) barriers. (A) For the covering abstract of the conference, see IRRD 837684.
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