Test rig, designed specifically for head-on crash tests on pairs of vehicles, has been installed at laboratories of Fiat, at their Mirafiore works; 2 I-section steel beams, placed parallel to each other, are secured to bed of rig, and from wheel-channels for vehicles to be tested; cars, placed at opposite ends of these channels, are drawn together by steel hawsers; other features and test results.


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    Title :

    Fiat vehicle crash simulator


    Additional title:

    Automobile Engr


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1963


    Size :

    2 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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