USE OF COMPUTER SIMULATION IN EVALUATING AIRBAG SYSTEM PERFORMANCE
Through the use of the VODS computer simulation model, the authors have designed driver side airbag systems for the 1980 Series Ford LTD, the Dodge Diplomat, and the Chevrolet Impala. These cars were then retrofitted with a Breed all-mechanical airbag system tailored for each car, and barrier crash tested at 30 mph by NHTSA. System performance results were excellent, and predicted versus actual 50th percentile driver dummy injury measures were in excellent agreement differing by less than 15%. The model was then used to predict airbag system dummy injury measures in 665 NHTSA crashes. In all but two of these crashes, the injury measures stayed below 80% of those allowed by FMVSS 208. Predicted airbag results for the 1984 NCAP crash tests are presented in detail.
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Availability:
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Supplemental Notes:
- Presented at SAE Government/Industry Meeting and Exposition Washington, D.C., May 20-23, 1985.
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Corporate Authors:
Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
400 Commonwealth Drive
Warrendale, PA United States 15096 -
Authors:
- BRANTMAN, R
- BREED, D
- Publication Date: 1985
Media Info
- Features: Figures; Tables;
- Pagination: 10 p.
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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: Air bags; Crash tests; Crashes; Forecasting; Injuries; Performance evaluations; Retrofitting; Simulation; Testing
- Identifier Terms: Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards
- Subject Areas: Research; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00451306
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
- Report/Paper Numbers: SAE 851188, HS-039 112
- Files: HSL, USDOT
- Created Date: Dec 31 1985 12:00AM