TEST DEVICE AND TEST PROCEDURE TO ASSESS SIDE STRUCTURES. PHASE I--FINAL REPORT
The purpose of this report is to document the results of studies and tests performed under Phase I of the Side Structures Evaluation program. This contract involves the development of a test device which will simulate the effect of a bullet car in car-to-car side impacts. The test device described herein consists of a layered aluminum honeycomb energy-absorbing (E/A) face mounted on a wheeled bogey vehicle. The stiffness and geometry of the E/A face are based upon weighted averages of test data and frontal geometric characteristics of a representative selection of late-model cars. Three series of crash tests were conducted, along with a series of static honeycomb component tests. The crash tests were conducted to provide frontal stiffness data, to measure the E/A face stiffness, and to compare the effect of the Side Impactor with that of a bullet car in car-to-car side impacts.
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Corporate Authors:
Dynamic Science
1850 West Pinnacle Peak Road
Phoenix, AZ United States 85027National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Authors:
- Beharrell, J
- Johnson, N
- Davis, S
- Publication Date: 1980-6
Media Info
- Pagination: 396 p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Automobiles; Barriers (Roads); Crash injury research; Crash tests; Crashes; Crashworthiness; Dynamic loads; Impacts; Research; Side crashes; Structural design; Vehicle performance
- Uncontrolled Terms: Barriers; Dynamic response
- Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I95: Vehicle Inspection;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00326038
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
- Report/Paper Numbers: HS-805 491
- Contract Numbers: DOT-HS-8-01933
- Files: HSL, NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
- Created Date: Nov 19 1982 12:00AM