RESEARCH IN IMPACT PROTECTION OF AUTOMOBILE OCCUPANTS. TECHNICAL REPORT

A RESEARCH PROGRAM IS CONDUCTED TO ESTABLISH A FACTUAL BASIS FOR FUTURE PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS FOR VEHICLE INTERIORS. ACTUAL HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS ARE REVIEWED IN DETAIL FROM A STATISTICAL VIEWPOINT TO ESTABLISH INTERIOR TARGET AREAS FOR GIVEN COMPONENTS OF THE HUMAN BODY AND TO RANK THE INJURY SEVERITIES PRODUCED BY THE CONTACTS. ENGINEERING ANALYSES, UTILIZING A COMPUTER SIMULATION OF THE CRASH VICTIM AND EXPERIMENTS WITH AN ACCELERATOR SLED, ARE PERFORMED TO SUPPLEMENT THE STATISTICAL DATA AND TO DETERMINE THE ENERGY ABSORPTION AND LOAD DEFLECTION REQUIREMENTS FOR THE VARIOUS IMPACT AREAS. IT IS CONCLUDED THAT SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS CAN BE MADE IN THE PROTECTION LEVEL PROVIDED BY EXISTING VEHICLE INTERIORS. PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS ARE RECOMMENDED FOR SEVERAL COMPONENTS. /HSL/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Report No CAL-VJ-2672-V-1, 324PP, 27 REF
• Corporate Authors:

  Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, Incorporated

  4455 Genesee Street
  Buffalo, NY  United States  14221
• Publication Date: 1969-7

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Computers; Crashes; Deflection; Design; Energy absorption; Experiments; Injuries; Injury severity; Loads; Performance; Protection; Simulation; Statistical analysis; Traffic crashes; Vehicle occupants; Vehicles
• Uncontrolled Terms: Interior; Severity
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Design; Highways; Passenger Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00221252
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Literature
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 10 1971 12:00AM