Trend of rear occupant protection in frontal crashes over model years of vehicles

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Esfahani, Elham Sahraei ^a   Digges, Kennerly ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRASHWORTHINESS;

AGE GROUPS; BODY REGIONS; CONTACT POINTS; DATA SYSTEMS; FRONTAL CRASHES; REAR OCCUPANTS; SAMPLING SYSTEMS;

ACCIDENTS;

EID: 85072351008     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2009-01-0377     Document Type: Conference Paper

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