Crash Tests and the Loads over Driver Head in Different Side Impact Cases

Abstract:

Car occupant protection in traffic accidents is a key target of today cars manufacturers. Known as active or passive safety, many technological solutions were developing over the time for an actual better car’s occupant safety. In the real world, in traffic accidents are often involved cars from different generations with various safety historical solutions. The aims of these papers are to quantify the influences over the car driver head loads in cases of different generation of cars involved in side crashes. For each case the experimental load results can be future used to calculate Head Injury Criterion (HIC) [1]

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 823)
• Pages: 181-186
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.823.181
• Online since: January 2016
• Authors: Nicolae Ispas*, Mircea Nastasoiu
• Keywords: Active Safety, Crash Test, Driver Head Loads, Passive Safety, Traffic Accidents

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