The bibliography covers test results on the crashworthiness and safety of passenger vehicles upon impact with stationary structures, other vehicles, median berms, and curbs. Excluded are individual reports on air bag restraints and bumper tests. The responses of vehicle structural components are studied in displacement and strain measurements, and in detailed examinations of permanently deformed components following individual tests. Research involves vehicle impacts front to front, lateral, at angles, and onside, as well as collisions involving poles, bridge parapets, highway structures, and safety and test barriers. Anthropomorphic tests are described using experimental test vehicles, rocket propelled sleds, and safety harness. Computerized simulation, mathematical models, and scale model studies are also described. (This updated bibliography contains 224 abstracts, 37 of which are new entries to the previous edition.)
Automobile Impact Tests (A Bibliography with Abstracts)
1976
226 pages
Report
No indication
English
Transportation Safety , Human Factors Engineering , Consumer Affairs , Bibliographies , Automobiles , Crash tests , Impact tests , Collision research , Safety engineering , Structural design , Anthropometry , Design standards , Mathematical analysis , Models , Computerized simulation , Model tests , Dynamic tests , Crashworthiness , Flexible structures , Vehicle interior components , Experimental safety vehicles