AIRBAG PROTOTYPE FOR A MID-SIZED TOURING MOTORCYCLE

This paper describes the testing of an airbag for a mid-sized touring motorcycle. Performance was assessed on sled tests and full-scale crash tests, where the motorcycle crashed into the side of a car, using a dummy as the motorcycle rider. Tests were performed with and without airbag. Film evaluations show that the airbag could be useful to reduce impact-induced loads to the rider as well as to guide the rider's movement into an upward direction over the roof of the car. For the covering abstract see ITRD E121180.

• Corporate Authors:

  IRCOBI (International Research Council on the Biokinetics of Impacts)

  109 Avenue Salvador Allende
  Bron CEDEX,   France  F-69675
• Authors:
  • ALEXANDER BERG, F
  • RUCKER, P
• Conference:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL IRCOBI CONFERENCE
  • Location: Munich , Germany
  • Date: 2002-9-18 to 2002-9-20
• Publication Date: 2002

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 2 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air bags; Conferences; Crash tests; Impact sleds; Loads; Motorcycles
• ITRD Terms: 1465: Air bag (restraint system); 8525: Conference; 1629: Impact sled; 1648: Impact test (crash); 5567: Load; 1221: Motorcycle
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00978106
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Sep 3 2004 12:00AM