THE SID, ITS DEVELOPMENT, TESTING AND REFINEMENT. BIOMECHANICS OF IMPACTS IN ROAD ACCIDENTS. PROCEEDINGS OF THE SEMINAR HELD IN BRUSSELS, 21-23 MARCH 1983

The reasons for the development of a new side impact dummy and its design and testing are described. The necessity for a new side impact dummy was demonstrated to the NHTSA in 1978 when comparisons were made of the lateral impact responses of both the part 572 and cadavers in indentical test conditions. These comparisons indicated that the dummy structure was much too stiff laterally. This was particularly evident in the shoulder area where the clavicle casting of the dummy provided an essentially rigid load path between the arm and the spine assembly. After new designing, new developing and new testing the current side impact dummy design is considered by NHTSA to possess sufficient biofidelity, repeatability, reproducibility, and durability for use in a 27 element test matrix designed to evaluate the NHTSA deformable barrier, test conditions, injury criteria, and vehicle modification concepts. For the covering abstract of the conference see IRRD 286949. (TRRL)

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• Authors:
  • EPPINGER, R H
• Publication Date: 1983

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 333-335
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  • Publication of: European Communities Office for Official Publicati
  • Publisher: European Communities Office for Official Publicati

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Biophysics; Conferences; Crash injury research; Design; Dummies; Shoulder; Side crashes
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00465939
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
• ISBN: 92-825-4328-5
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 31 1988 12:00AM