COMPARISON OF SIDE IMPACT DUMMIES AND PROTECTION CRITERIA. IN: LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS FOR CAR OCCUPANT PROTECTION IN LATERAL IMPACT. IMECHE AUTOMOBILE DIVISION SEMINAR HELD AT THE INSTITUTION OF MECJANICAL ENGINEERS, LONDON, APRIL 28, 1989

Side impacts are the second most important traffic accident configuration, and in parallel to the development of test methods for side impact evaluation, side impact dummies were designed. They are the DOT-SID which was developed in the United States, and the EUROSID, the product of scientific cooperation between four European research laboratories; more recently a new side impact dummy was designed by General Motors (GM). This paper examines the biofidelity of each of these dummies in accordance with the requirements of the International Standards Organization Technical Committee working group document ISO TC 22/SC 12/WGS. It is concluded that none of the side impact dummies evaluated fulfil all the biofidelity requirements, though they are more realistic in padded impacts than in rigid impacts. For the covering abstract see IRRD 837485. (Author/TRRL)

• Corporate Authors:

  Institution of Mechanical Engineers

  1 Birdcage Walk
  London SW1H 9JJ,   England 
• Authors:
  • Desari, D
• Publication Date: 1989

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 16 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Abdomen; Anthropometry; Biophysics; Conferences; Dummies; Evaluation; Head; Injuries; Pelvis; Shoulder; Side crashes; Spinal column; Tests; Thorax
• Uncontrolled Terms: Head injuries
• Old TRIS Terms: Lateral impact
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00623898
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 31 1992 12:00AM