Accident Reconstruction Science

This book examines the science of reconstructing and analyzing automobile accidents and would be of interest to reconstructionists, attorneys, automotive engineers or other interested professionals. Information on how to analyze accidents and judge speed from the vehicle's final position is presented. Additional topics covered are sideswipe collisions, rollovers, calculations of collision timing and accelerations, and measuring vehicle crush, among others. Basic concepts of physics are explained and then applied to accident reconstruction. Further topics include general material loading responses, vehicle crush response for impacts into rigid barriers, crush responses in two-vehicle, low speed collisions, computer modeling methods, energetics of collisions, bumper behavior, integrating hits and other effects, mechanical models, and comparisons between the CRASH3 and the POD models.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Lawyers & Judges Publishing Company, Incorporated

  P.O. Box 30040
  Tucson, AZ  United States  85751-0040
• Authors:
  • Watts, Alan J
• Publication Date: 2011-10-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; References;
• Pagination: 416p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bumpers; Computer models; Crash reconstruction; Crashes; Rollover crashes
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I80: Accident Studies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01482533
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 28 2013 9:36AM