EVALUATION OF SECONDARY RISK WITH A NEW PROGRAMMED RESTRAINING SYSTEM (PRS2)
The new safety standards or car assessment programs for passive safety lead to the stiffening of car bodies. Consequently, the loading of occupants increases, generating a higher injury risk to the thorax. To avoid this increase in undeformed cars, more efficient restraining systems have to be developed. But the improvement of performances should not increase out-of-position (OOP) risks, in particular to the neck and thorax of adults and to children. This paper deals with the development of a new restraining system combining a belt with 4 kN force limiter and an airbag with pressure limitation. In order to have a biomechanical evaluation of real protection on human being, the OOP injury risk is studied by Post Mortem Human Subject (PMHS) experiments. (A) For the covering abstract see IRRD E102514.
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Corporate Authors:
National Highway Safety Advisory Committee
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Authors:
- TROSSEILLE, X BENDJELLAL
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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. 1143-6
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Serial:
- Volume: 2
- Issue Number: DOT HS 808 759
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Air bags; Cadavers; Crash tests; Evaluation and assessment; Injuries; Location; Manual safety belts
- ITRD Terms: 1465: Air bag (restraint system); 2093: Cadaver; 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 1648: Impact test (crash); 2163: Injury; 9061: Location; 1476: Safety belt
- Subject Areas: Research; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00781025
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
- Files: ITRD, USDOT
- Created Date: Jan 7 2000 12:00AM