MODELING TOOLS FOR DESIGN OF AIR CUSHION RESTRAINT SYSTEMS

AN AIR CUSHION RESTRAINT SYSTEM STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO DEVELOP AND EXPERIMENTALLY VERIFY MATHEMATICAL MODELS OF SELECTED AIR CUSHION RESTRAINT SYSTEMS; TO PROVIDE A METHOD FOR SIMULATING THE DYNAMIC INTERACTION BETWEEN OCCUPANTS AND RESTRAINT SYSTEM DURING AN AUTOMOBILE COLLISION, AND TO DEVELOP AN EFFICIENT MEANS FOR CONDUCTING SYSTEM PERFORMANCE TRADEOFF STUDIES OF PROMISING SYSTEM CONCEPTS. ALL OF THE MODELS INDIVIDUALLY AND IN COMBINATION PROVIDE A COMPREHENSIVE DESIGN ANALYSIS CAPABILITY USEFUL IN THE EVALUATION OF AIR CUSHION RESTRAINT SYSTEMS. THIS CAPABILITY PERMITS PARAMETER STUDIES OF A WIDE RANGE OF VEHICLE, SENSOR, INFLATION AND OCCUPANT COMBINATIONS, THUS REDUCING THE TIME AND NUMBER OF HARDWARE TESTS REQUIRED TO CONVERGE ON THE MOST OPTIMUM SYSTEM CONFIGURATION. IMPROVEMENTS IN CUSHION PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES ARE NEEDED TO PERMIT MORE ACCURATE CORRELATION OF THE AIR CUSHION MODEL. /HSL/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Rpt No Sae-710015, 22 PP, 6 REF
• Corporate Authors:

  General Motors Corporation

  Warren, MI  United States  48090
• Authors:
  • Irish, F J
  • Potter, R A
  • McKenzie, R D
• Publication Date: 1971

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air cushion vehicles; Constraints; Crash tests; Crashes; Design; Inflation; Mathematical models; Sensors; Testing; Vehicle occupants; Vehicles
• Old TRIS Terms: Air cushion
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Passenger Transportation; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00221484
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Literature
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 13 1971 12:00AM