EVALUATION OF MOTOR VEHICLE INITIATION AND PROPAGATION, VEHICLE CRASH AND FIRE PROPAGATION TEST PROGRAM

As part of the vehicle safety research outlined in the March 7, 1995 Settlement Agreement between General Motors and the US Department of Transportation, General Motors is conducting a series of vehicle crash and fire propagation tests. The vehicles used for these tests include a passenger van, a rear wheel drive passenger car, a front wheel drive passenger car and a sport utility vehicle. Crash tests will be conducted to characterize potential ignition sources resulting from collision events. Standard ignition protocols will be developed to simulate gasoline spill fires, electrical fires, and hot-manifold ignition of non-gasoline combustible fluids. Fire propagation tests will be conducted to characterize fire propagation in crashed vehicles. The crash tested vehicles will be burned using the ignition protocols. (A) 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:
  • JENSEN, J 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. 813-27
• Serial:
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue Number: DOT HS 808 759

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash tests; Evaluation and assessment; Fires; Safety; Standards
• ITRD Terms: 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 1624: Fire; 1648: Impact test (crash); 1665: Safety; 187: Specification (standard)
• Subject Areas: Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00780925
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 7 2000 12:00AM