QUANTIFICATION OF SIDE IMPACT RESPONSES AND INJURIES

Side impacts have been shown to produce a large portion of both serious and fatal injuries within the total automotive crash problem. These injuries are produced as a result of the rapid changes in velocity an automobile occupant's body experiences during a crash. Any improvement to the side impact problem will be brought about by means which will ultimately modify the occupant's rapid body motions to such a degree that they will no longer produce injuries of serious consequence. Accurate knowledge of both the body's motion and resulting injuries under a variety of impact conditions is needed to achieve this goal. Possession of this knowledge will then permit development of accurate anthropomorphic test devices and injury criteria which can be used to create effective injury countermeasures in vehicles.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proceedings of Twenty-fifth Stapp Car Crash Conference, September 28-30, 1981, Jack Tar Hotel, San Francisco, California.
• Corporate Authors:

  Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

  400 Commonwealth Drive
  Warrendale, PA  United States  15096
• Authors:
  • Kallieris, D
  • Mattern, R
  • Schmidt, G
  • EPPINGER, R H
• Conference:
  • Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Stapp Car Crash Conference, September 28-30, 1981, Jack Tar Hotel, San Francisco, California.
• Publication Date: 1981

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 329-366

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Countermeasures; Crash injury research; Injuries; Side crashes
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I84: Personal Injuries; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00361156
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: 811009 Conf Paper, HS-032 402
• Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: May 28 1982 12:00AM