Quantification of Side Impact Responses and Injuries 811009
Side impacts have been shown to produce a large portion of both serious and fatal injuries within the total automotive crash problem. These injuries are produced as a result of the rapid changes in velocity an automobile occupant's body experiences during a crash. Any improvement to the side impact problem will be brought about by means which will ultimately modify the occupant's rapid body motions to such a degree that they will no longer produce injuries of serious consequence.
Accurate knowledge of both the body's motion and resulting injuries under a variety of impact conditions is needed to achieve this goal. Possession of this knowledge will then permit development of accurate anthropomorphic test devices and injury criteria which can be used to create effective injury countermeasures in vehicles.
Citation: Kallieris, D., Mattern, R., Schmidt, G., and Eppinger, R., "Quantification of Side Impact Responses and Injuries," SAE Technical Paper 811009, 1981, https://doi.org/10.4271/811009. Download Citation
Author(s):
D. Kallieris, R. Mattern, G. Schmidt, Rolf H. Eppinger
Affiliated:
University of Heidelberg
Pages: 39
Event:
25th Stapp Car Crash Conference (1981)
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Also in:
Twenty-Fifth Stapp Car Crash Conference-P-097
Related Topics:
Fatal injuries
Anthropometric test devices
Side impact crashes
Injuries
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