VEHICLE COMPATIBILITY AND ITS EVALUATION

COMPATIBILITA SULLA SICUREZZA DEI VEICOLI E SUA VALUTAZIONE

Compatibility, defined as a vehicle's capacity to coexist with other road users with minimal damage given the inevitability of accidents, is a major aspect of safety improvement. The relevant parameters are the relative mass, rigidity and "interface" (the mutual effects of the shape and rigidity distribution). These and other aspects of compatibility, notably vehicle aggressivity, are reviewed for various collision types. This review is followed by a consideration of the means of evaluating compatibility. Given that the simulation of collisions between a range of models at various speeds is prohibitively expensive, the means available for simulating collisions between vehicles are considered. Most of these are unsatisfactory for various reasons, so Fiat has developed a more sophisticated approach using mobile, deformable barriers impacting vehicles containing instrumented dummies and extrapolation by means of mathematical models based on test data to various impact speeds and types for various vehicles. The advantages of this approach are considered. (TRRL)

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  Associazione Tecnica dell' Automobile

  Via Carlo Alberto 61
  10123 Turin,   Italy 
• Authors:
  • Franchini, E
• Publication Date: 1981-5

Language

• Italian

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: p. 325-334
• Serial:
  • ATA-Associazione Tecnica dell'Automobile
  • Volume: 34
  • Publisher: Associazione Tecnica dell' Automobile
  • ISSN: 0001-2661

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aggression; Anthropometry; Barriers (Roads); Crash injury research; Crash tests; Crashes; Dummies; Highway user taxation; Injuries; Loss and damage; Mathematical models; Research; Safety; Shape; Simulation; Speed; Stiffness; Traffic safety; Travelers; Vehicle size; Vehicles; Weight
• Uncontrolled Terms: Compatibility; Decreases
• ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 1618: Anthropometric dummy; 1631: Collision; 1614: Damage; 9009: Decrease; 1648: Impact test (crash); 2163: Injury; 6473: Mathematical model; 1649: Mobile barrier; 1755: Road user; 1665: Safety; 9073: Shape; 9103: Simulation; 5408: Speed; 5931: Stiffness; 1255: Vehicle; 5485: Weight
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Society; Vehicles and Equipment; I80: Accident Studies; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00348574
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 30 1982 12:00AM