This report summarizes the results of a detailed, review of existing experimental data from staged automobile collisions and it presents long range plans to meet future data needs in relation to computer aids for reconstruction of highway accidents. A total of 141 staged collisions involving 170 individual vehicles with usable damage information were reviewed. The experimental damage data were coded and entered in a computerized data bank which was developed within the research program. Only seven staged collisions were found to include usable documentation of data from the spinout trajectories of the vehicles. Detailed plans are presented for application of the developed data bank. A sample application to refine the empirical structural crush tables of the CRASH program is included in the report. All data collected within the research program are presented in the Appendix.
Samenvatting