Effects of Vehicle Front-End Stiffness on Rear Seat Dummies in NCAP and FMVSS208 Tests

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 602-606

  Sahraei, Elham ^a   Digges, Kennerly ^b   Marzougui, Dhafer ^b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

crash test; FMVSS; frontal impact; NCAP; rear seat occupant; stiffness

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MOTOR VEHICLE; NECK INJURY; STATISTICS; THORAX INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MANIKINS; MOTOR VEHICLES; NECK INJURIES; THORACIC INJURIES;

EID: 84880938386     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2012.742516     Document Type: Article

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