VEHICLE MECHANICS OF INTERSECTION COLLISION IMPACT
THE TWO PHASES IN AUTOMOBILE COLLISIONS ARE: THE IMPACT PHASE, WHICH IS TREATED IN THIS PAPER, AND THE AFTER-COLLISION PHASE. AS INDICATED BY FULL-SCALE EXPERIMENTS IN UNIDIRECTIONAL COLLISIONS, AND AS CONFIRMED BY SIMILITUDE MODEL STUDY IN SIDE IMPACT COLLISIONS, VEHICLES BEHAVE AS RIGID BODIES IN BOTH IMPACT AND AFTER-COLLISION PHASES. WITH THIS CONFIRMATION, THE ANALYSES OF SEEMINGLY COMPLEX INTERSECTION AUTOMOBILE COLLISION PHENOMENA BECOME POSSIBLE BY APPLICATION OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMPACT THEORIES WHICH ARE PRIMARILY BASED ON THE MOMENTUM-IMPULSE PRINCIPLE OF RIGID BODIES. AVAILABLE FULL-SCALE INTERSECTION EXPERIMENTS INDICATE THE NUMERICAL RANGE OF THE COEFFICIENT OF RESTITUTION AND THE COEFFICIENT OF FRICTION BETWEEN TWO VEHICLE BODIES IN COLLISION. /SRIS/
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Supplemental Notes:
- Paper No 700177, 6 PP, 9 FIG, 9 REF
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Corporate Authors:
Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
400 Commonwealth Drive
Warrendale, PA United States 15096 -
Authors:
- Emori, R I
- Publication Date: 1970-1
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Analysis; Coefficient of friction; Coefficients; Crash injury research; Crashes; Experiments; Impacts; Impulses (Mechanics); Intersections; Mechanics; Momentum; Range (Statistics); Research; Stiffness; Vehicle range; Vehicles
- Uncontrolled Terms: Coefficient of restitution; Principles; Similitude
- Old TRIS Terms: Impulses
- Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00220877
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Nat Safety Council Safety Res Info Serv
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Nov 23 1970 12:00AM