OCCUPANT PROTECTION

This Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Special Publication on occupant protection is a collection of 20 papers from the 1999 SAE International Congress and Exposition, held in Detroit, Michigan, during March 1999. The reports were offered in three separate technical sessions: Impact Measurement, Biomechanics, and Side Impact. When this 20th century opened, the new automobile was a source of wonder and amazement, a radical new means of transportation. By 1950, cars were considered safe and reliable. Automobile accidents, however, were resulting in an increasing number of injuries and fatalities. The automobile engineering and scientific community became increasingly aware of the need for vehicle design that provided more pretection in higher speed car crashes. In the past 25 years, the growth of computer technology and the advancements in biomechanics have greatly affected work in this field. Crash test dummies have been refined and improved to represent more humanlike responses and to represent a wider range of human subject characteristics, including the unique relationship between pregnant females and the restraint systems that are meant to protect them. New problems are now arising that need to be solved. The popularity of new and larger personal vehicles is widening the size and mass gap between the small, fuel efficient cars of the 1980s and the new sport utility fleet. The effect of mass on crash severity has been well demonstrated. A new challenge is to manage the transfer of energy demands inherent in both the faster, heavier, and the more maneuverable, smaller vehicles that share the highways. These papers address all of those challenges.

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• Conference:
  • 1999 SAE International Congress and Exposition
  • Location: Detroit, Michigan , United States
  • Date: 1999-3-1 to 1999-3-4
• Publication Date: 1999-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 244 p.
• Serial:
  • SAE Special Publications
  • Publisher: Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air bags; Anthropometry; Crash injuries; Crash tests; Crash victim simulation; Drivers; Dummies; Finite element method; Frontal crashes; Head; Injuries; Kalman filtering; Knee; Motorcycle crashes; Multiple vehicle crashes; Occupant dynamics; Occupant protection devices; Pedestrian vehicle crashes; Pregnant women; Rear end crashes; Restraint systems; Side crashes; Thorax
• Uncontrolled Terms: Out of position occupants
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom; United States
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I84: Personal Injuries; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00768984
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0768003644
• Report/Paper Numbers: SP-1432
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 29 1999 12:00AM