AUTOMOBILE IMPACT TESTS, SEPTEMBER 1980-AUGUST 1983 (CITATIONS FROM THE NTIS DATA BASE)

The bibliography covers impact tests for car design and for studying passenger safety. Impact tests for car design include areas such as collision research, research on standard vehicles and their crashworthiness, damage susceptability, and automobile-body-structural studies for design of bumpers, doors, and front end. Passenger safety studies include accident research, injury severity, biomechanics, kinematics and modeling; anthropomorphic test dummy usage; design of safety devices for occupant protection, such as belts and air bags; and pedestrian safety studies.

• Corporate Authors:

  National Technical Information Service

  5301 Shawnee Road
  Alexandria, VA  United States  22312
• Publication Date: 1983-9

Media Info

• Pagination: 56 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air bags; Automobiles; Bibliographies; Biophysics; Crash injury research; Crash tests; Crashes; Crashworthiness; Dummies; Manual safety belts; Passengers; Research; Vehicle design; Vehicle safety
• Old TRIS Terms: Vehicular safety
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Passenger Transportation; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00385447
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 28 1984 12:00AM