THE IMPACT BEHAVIOR OF THE HYBRID II DUMMY

The head, chest and femurs of three Hybrid II dummies were impacted with a ballistic pendulum at various angles to determine what differences in accelerometer and femur load cell putput would result for a constant energy input. Also evaluated were suspicious tension loads in the femur load cell putput when the legs were subjected to obvious off-center impacts during crash tests. It was found that the dummy legs can be subjected to very high torsion and bending loads which can have a significant effect on the femur load cell axial load outputs.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the Stapp Car Crash Conference.
• Corporate Authors:

  Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

  400 Commonwealth Drive
  Warrendale, PA  United States  15096
• Authors:
  • DANIEL, R P
  • Trosien, K R
  • Young, B O
• Conference:
  • Stapp Car Crash Conference Proceedings
• Publication Date: 1975

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 21 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accelerometers; Bending; Crash tests; Crashes; Dummies; Head; Impact studies; Testing; Thorax; Torsion
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00132042
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Research Institute
• Report/Paper Numbers: SAE #751145
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 5 1976 12:00AM