OFFEST TEST PROCEDURE DEVELOPMENT AND COMPARISON

Considerable worldwide attention has been directed to offset test development because past testing practiccs did not adequately address the structural integrity of passenger compartments for partial engagement car-to-car crashes or collisions into fixed narrow objects. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Research and Development has been conducting offset car-to-car and moving deformable barrier testing since the early 1980's in order to develop an offset test procedure that characterizes the crash environment in which serious injuries are projected to occur in an all airbag fleet. This paper compares theoretical and actual results from car-to-car tests, the European test as used by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, and the NHTSA R&D test procedure using the moving deformable barrier. For the covering abstract see IRRD E102514.

• Record URL:
  • http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/departments/esv/16th/
• Corporate Authors:

  National Highway Safety Advisory Committee

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • RAGLAND, C L
• Conference:
  • 16th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles
  • Location: Windsor Ontario, Canada
  • Date: 1998-5-31 to 1998-6-4
• Publication Date: 1998-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 185-93
• Serial:
  • Volume: 1
  • Issue Number: DOTHS808759

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash tests; Standards; Test procedures
• Geographic Terms: Europe; United States
• ITRD Terms: 8034: Europe; 1648: Impact test (crash); 187: Specification (standard); 6288: Test method; 8122: USA
• Subject Areas: Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00779223
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, USDOT
• Created Date: Dec 7 1999 12:00AM