THE FIRST STANDARD AUTOMOTIVE CRASH DUMMY

A STANDARD 50TH PERCENTILE ADULT MALE ANTHROPOMORPHIC DUMMY IS DESCRIBED. FOR NEARLY THREE YEARS THE CRASH TEST DUMMY TASK FORCE WORKED WITH THE LIMITED DATA AVAILABLE IN SELECTING VALUES FOR THE BODY DIMENSIONS AND RANGES OF MOTION. THE DATA FOR SPECIFING THE VALUES OF MASS DISTRIBUTION WERE DEVELOPED EXPERIMENTALLY AS WAS A TEST PROCEDURE FOR DETERMINING THE DYNAMIC SPRING RATE OF THE THORAX. /HSL/

• Corporate Authors:

  Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

  400 Commonwealth Drive
  Warrendale, PA  United States  15096
• Authors:
  • STARKEY, J
  • Young, J
  • Alderson, S W
  • Cichowski, W G
  • Sobkow, W J
  • Krag, M T
  • Horn, W D
• Publication Date: 1969

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Anthropometry; Crash tests; Crashes; Dummies; Testing; Thorax
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00221020
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Literature
• Report/Paper Numbers: 13 pp
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 21 1970 12:00AM