Vehicle crashworthiness in vertical drop tests

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)

Volumn 2000-D, Issue , 2000, Pages 253-254

  Herbst, Brian ^a   Forrest, Stephen ^a   Meyer, Steven E ^a   Chng, David ^a   Davis, Mark ^a   Sances, Anthony ^b  

^a Safety Analysis forensic Engineering   (United States)

^b Biomechanics Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; DROPS; ROOFS;

A PILLARS; DROP HEIGHT; DROP TESTING; REAL-WORLD; ROLLOVER ACCIDENTS; ROOF STRENGTHS; SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES; VERTICAL DROP TEST;

CRASHWORTHINESS;

EID: 33646973540     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE2000-2606     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

1. Herbst,B., Forrest, S., Meyer, S.E., 1998, "Strength Improvements to Automotive Roof Components," SAE 980209.
2. Lilley, K. and Mani, A., 1996, "Roof-Crash Strength Improvement Using Rigid Polyurethane Foam," SAE 960435.
3. Meyer,S.E., Davis, M, Forrest, S., Chng, D., Herbst, B., 2000, "Accident Reconstruction of Rollovers-A Methodology," SAE 2000-01-0853.
4. Rains, G., Van Voorhis, M.A., 1998, "Quasi Static and Dynamic Roof Crush Testing," Final Report VRTC-82-0197/VRTC-86-0391.