CHILD RESTRAINT SYSTEM TESTS PERFORMED ON SIMULATED AIRCRAFT PASSENGER SEATS, VOLUME I-TECHNICAL REPORT

The objective of the program was to test to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) TSO-C100 regulation all currently available child restraint systems on the present U.S.A. market which meet the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 213 requirements. Task I involved the calibration of 2 three-year-old child test dummies which were used in the dynamic tests of the seats. Tasks II and III were concerned with sled tests of the child restraints at 20 mph and data analysis. The work of Tasks IV and V consisted of testing the seats on an inversion test stand to investigate dummy/seat containment characteristics and Tasks VI and VII were concerned with the inertial loading tests of the seats and data analysis. Seats designed with top tether straps were sled tested at 30 mph without the tethers attached in Tasks VIII and IX. The test results indicated that all of the child restraints passed the FAA TSO-C100 regulations. Two seats, the Questor 301 and the Questor 441, did not pass the restraint inertial loading tests at the increased load levels of three times the required TSO-C100 loads.

• Corporate Authors:

  Calspan Advanced Technology Center

  4455 Genesee Street
  Buffalo, NY  United States  14225

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Naab, K N
• Publication Date: 1983-11

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 70 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aircraft; Child restraint systems; Seats; Sled tests; Testing
• Identifier Terms: Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards
• Old TRIS Terms: Test results
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Highways; Vehicles and Equipment; I95: Vehicle Inspection;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00396295
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: 7194-1 Final Rpt., HS-806 644
• Contract Numbers: DTNH22-83-C-02039
• Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 31 1985 12:00AM