Children in adult seat belts and child harnesses: Crash sled comparisons of dummy responses

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages

  Henderson, Michael ^a   Brown, Julie ^b   Griffiths, Michael ^b  

^a Michael Henderson Research

^b Roads and Traffic Authority

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; AUTOMOBILE SEAT BELTS; HYBRID INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SOFTWARE TESTING;

AXIAL TENSIONS; BELT SYSTEM; CHILD RESTRAINTS; DUMMY HEAD; HEAD ACCELERATIONS; HEAD AND NECK; IMPACT RESPONSE; TEST PROGRAM;

ACCIDENTS;

EID: 85072470477     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/973308     Document Type: Conference Paper

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