Investigation of New Side Impact Test Procedures in Japan

Various countries are independently conducting side impact tests with actual vehicles, resulting in extensive revisions of safety measures for accidents involving side collisions. However, the number of people injured and killed in these collisions remains high, and so more effective overall measures, including those for the vehicle itself, are urgently needed. The International Harmonized Research Activities committee (IHRA) is actively conducting research toward enacting laws to standardize future methods of side impact tests as one way to realize international harmonization projects. This has led to movable deformable barrier (MDB) improvements as well as the improvement and development of dummies. This report is intended to be useful for IHRA research activities. Tests were conducted using the improved dummies (ES-2, ES-2re) and AE-MDB in order to provide research results for comparison with body and dummy responses obtained in conditions complying with current regulations in Japan and Europe, and proposed regulations in the United States.

• Record URL:
  • http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-01/esv/esv19/05-0188-O.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Yonezawa, Hideki
  • Hosokawa, Naruyuki
  • Minda, Hiroko
  • Notsu, Masao
• Conference:
  • 19th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV)
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2005-6-6 to 2005-6-9
• Publication Date: 2005-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 8p
• Monograph Title: Proceedings - 19th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV), Washington, D.C., June 6-9, 2005

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash injury research; Crash tests; Dummies; Laws; Regulations; Side crashes; Standardization; Test procedures
• Uncontrolled Terms: Deformable barriers
• Geographic Terms: Europe; Japan; United States
• Subject Areas: Highways; Law; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety; I95: Vehicle Inspection;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01066457
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 05-0188
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Sep 11 2007 2:04PM