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Author: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781492399827 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 184
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Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 214, “Side Impact Protection” was amended to assure occupant protection in a 33.5 mph crash test and phased-in to new passenger cars during model years 1994-1997. A Thoracic Trauma Index, TTI(d) is measured on Side Impact Dummies seated adjacent to the impact point. Manufacturers upgraded side structures and affixed padding in cars to improve TTI(d). Later, they installed two types of side air bags – torso bags and head air bags – for additional occupant protection in cars and LTVs. This report provides statistical analyses of 1993-2005 crash data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and the General Estimates System (GES) estimate fatality reductions for these technologies.
Author: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781492399827 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 184
Book Description
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 214, “Side Impact Protection” was amended to assure occupant protection in a 33.5 mph crash test and phased-in to new passenger cars during model years 1994-1997. A Thoracic Trauma Index, TTI(d) is measured on Side Impact Dummies seated adjacent to the impact point. Manufacturers upgraded side structures and affixed padding in cars to improve TTI(d). Later, they installed two types of side air bags – torso bags and head air bags – for additional occupant protection in cars and LTVs. This report provides statistical analyses of 1993-2005 crash data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and the General Estimates System (GES) estimate fatality reductions for these technologies.
Author: Charles Jesse Kahane Publisher: ISBN: Category : Air bag restraint systems Languages : en Pages : 166
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Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 214, Side Impact Protection was amended to assure occupant protection in a 33.5 mph crash test and phased-in to new passenger cars during model years 1994-1997. A Thoracic Trauma Index, TTI(d) is measured on Side Impact Dummies seated adjacent to the impact point. Manufacturers upgraded side structures and affixed padding in cars to improve TTI(d). Later, they installed two types of side air bags, torso bags and head air bags for additional occupant protection in cars and LTVs. Statistical analyses of 1993-2005 crash data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and the General Estimates System (GES) estimate fatality reductions for these technologies. Average TTI(d) improved in 2-door cars from 114 in 1981-1985 to 44 in 214-certified cars with side air bags, and in 4-door cars from 85 to 48. TTI(d) improvements without side air bags reduced fatality risk for nearside occupants in multivehicle crashes by an estimated 33 percent in 2-door cars and 17 percent in 4-door cars. Torso plus head air bags reduce fatality risk for nearside occupants by an estimated 24 percent; torso bags alone, by 12 percent. TTI(d) improvements, torso bags and head-curtain air bags could have saved an estimated 2,934 lives in calendar year 2003 if every car and LTV on the road had been equipped with them.
Author: Department of Transportation: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781492389156 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 52
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Beginning September 1, 1993, all light trucks (pickup trucks, vans, and sport utility vehicles) were required to meet a crush resistance standard for side doors. Data from calendar years 1989 through 2001 of the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) were used to determine the effectiveness of changes made by vehicle manufacturers to meet this standard. Effectiveness was determined by comparing changes in the number of fatalities in side impacts relative to those in frontal impacts.
Author: Viquar H. Mohammad Publisher: ISBN: Category : Electronic dissertations Languages : en Pages : 82
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Side impact crashes can be generally quite dangerous due to the limited space in the car door for large deformation and energy-dissipation in order to protect an occupant from the crash forces. The side impact collision is the second largest cause of death in United States after frontal crash. Day-by-day increase in the fuel cost and the emission of the smoke from the automobile industry are also the major concerns in the contemporary world. Hence the safety, fuel efficiency and emission gas regulation of the passenger cars are important issues in contemporary world. An ideal way to increase the fuel efficiency without sacrificing the safety is to employ composite materials in the body of the cars because the composite materials have higher specific strength than those of steel. The increase in the usage of composite material directly influences the decrease in the total weight of car and gas emission. In this research, carbon/epoxy AS4/3051-6 is used as composite material for a side impact beam design, which has adequate load carrying capacities and that it absorbs more strain energy than steel. The finite element (FE) models of a typical passenger car and the moving deformable barrier (MDB), as available in literature, have been utilized for the analysis in this thesis. The current side impact beam is removed from the car and the new beam, which is designed using CATIA, is merged on to the driver side of the front door of the car model. The total energy absorptions of the new beam with steel and composite material are compared with those of the current beam in three-point bending test simulations. The surface plots for mass (weight), specific energy, and intrusion are developed as design charts. The intrusions of the beam are then evaluated by using the full-vehicle models and as per regulatory FMVSS 214, IIHS and Side Pole impact safety methods. The new impact beam with composite material is shown to exhibit higher impact energy absorption capability, when compared to current beam and new beam with steel, with 62.5% reduction in weight.
Author: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Author: Charles Jesse Kahane
Author: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Author: Charles Jesse Kahane
Author: David C. Viano
Author: Charles Jesse Kahane
Author: Malcolm H. Ray
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Author: Viquar H. Mohammad