TEST SITE INSTRUMENTATION STUDY. VOLUME I

The study reviewed the data acquisition and reduction practices at fifteen crash and sled testing facilities which normally produce impact test data for the NHTSA. Attention was focused on dynamic response characteristics, instrumentation calibration procedures, filtering techniques, equipment properties and analog to digital conversion techniques. The results of the study indicate that significant variations occur among the test facilities. Recommendations are given for the NHTSA to standardize data acquisition and reduction methods so that the test data in the NHTSA crash test data base system will have greater consistency.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • See also Volume 2, PB82-111832.
• Corporate Authors:

  MGA Research Corporation

  58 Sonwil Drive
  Buffalo, NY  United States  14225

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Arendt, R H
  • MILLER, P M
• Publication Date: 1981-6

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 214 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Acceleration (Mechanics); Automobiles; Calibration; Crash injury research; Crash tests; Crashes; Data collection; Data reduction; Dynamic loads; Head; Information processing; Injuries; Instrumentation; Research; Standardization; Test facilities; Testing; Testing equipment; Variables
• Uncontrolled Terms: Dynamic response
• Old TRIS Terms: Variations
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I95: Vehicle Inspection;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00346067
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: G22-V-1 Final Rpt., HS-805 979
• Contract Numbers: DOT-HS-8-01936
• Files: HSL, NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 29 1982 12:00AM