USE OF COMPUTERIZED ACCIDENT REPAIR STATISTICS IN DESIGNING FOR IMPROVED DAMAGEABILITY

The proliferation of make/model insurance premium rating programs has encouraged auto manufacturers to design new models for reduced accident damage susceptibility and improved repairability. Computerized collision repair estimating has facilitated damageability analysis by providing "real world" accident statistics to evaluate current vehicle designs. Such information is useful in developing design "do's and don'ts" for future models, determining the competitive position of a manufacturer's products or parts pricing levels, establishing damageability objectives for future models and projecting status as the design evolves, determining the effects of downsizing or new materials and correlating damageability crash testing to field experience. Examples from ADP's historical estimate files illustrate these techniques.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • International Congress and Exposition, Detroit, Michigan, February 27-March 2, 1984.
• Corporate Authors:

  Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

  400 Commonwealth Drive
  Warrendale, PA  United States  15096
• Authors:
  • Sterback, S
• Publication Date: 1984

Media Info

• Pagination: 11 p.
• Serial:
  • SAE Technical Paper
  • Publisher: Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
  • ISSN: 0148-7191
  • EISSN: 2688-3627
  • Serial URL: http://papers.sae.org/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crashes; Crashworthiness; Information processing; Loss and damage; Repairing; Statistics; Vehicle design
• Uncontrolled Terms: Repairs
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Design; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00394244
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: SAE 840321, HS-038 118
• Files: HSL, USDOT
• Created Date: May 31 1985 12:00AM