TEST AND EVALUATION OF THE AMF INC. AND FAIRCHILD INDUSTRIES EXPERIMENTAL SAFETY VEHICLES. VOLUME 1. ESV PROGRAM SUMMARY

THE PURPOSE OF THE PROGRAM WAS TO CONDUCT QUANTITATIVE, NONDESTRUCTIVE, AND CRASH TESTS ON TWO PROTOTYPE EXPERIMENTAL SAFETY VEHICLE (ESVS) FROM EACH OF TWO COMPETING DEVELOPMENT CONTRACTORS, AMF INC. AND FAIRCHILD INDUSTRIES. THE RESULTS OF THESE TESTS WERE ANALYZED BY THE GOVERNMENT AND USED AS THE BASIS FOR DETERMINING THE BEST OVERALL VEHICLES SAFETY DESIGN. A COMPREHENSIVE SAFETY PERFORMANCE ESV SPECIFICATION CONSISTING OF EXISTING AND PROPOSED FMVSSS (FEDERAL MANUFACTURER'S VEHICLE SAFETY STANDARDS) WERE APPLICABLE TO THE ESVS DESIGNED FOR THE PROGRAM AND WERE THE BASIS FOR MANY OF THE EVALUATIONS. CRASH INJURY REDUCTION EVALUATIONS WERE BASED EXCLUSIVELY ON THE ESV SPECIFICATION. DYNAMIC SCIENCE PREPARED THE TEST PROCEDURES AND DEVELOPED, REFINED, AND VERIFIED THE NECESSARY METHODOLOGY TO PERFORM THE EVALUATIONS ON THE ESVS. THESE PROCEDURES AND METHODOLOGIES WERE REFINED DURING A PHASE I BASELINE EVALUATION PROGRAM. THE PROTOTYPE EVALUATION WAS PERFORMED DURING PHASE II. THE PROGRAM RESULTS ARE PRESENTED IN FOUR VOLUMES: VOLUME I- ESV PROGRAM SUMMARY, VOLUME II - TASK I, EVALUATION OF DESIGN REQUIREMENTS, VOLUME III - TASK II, ACCIDENT AVOIDANCE EVALUATION, VOLUME IV - TASK III, CRASH INJURY REDUCTION, AND TASK IV, POST-CRASH FACTORS EVALUATION. /AUTHOR/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Rept No 2310-72-23
• Corporate Authors:

  Dynamic Science

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• Publication Date: 1972-9

Media Info

• Pagination: 43 p.
• Serial:
  • Volume: 1

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash injury research; Crash tests; Crashes; Crashworthiness; Experiments; Injuries; Performance tests; Research; Safety; Testing; Types of cracking; Vehicles
• Uncontrolled Terms: Crazing
• Old TRIS Terms: Crashworthy
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00224426
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 3 1974 12:00AM