Compatibility for frontal impact collisions between heavy and light cars

Hirayama, Shigeru; Obayashi, Kazuhiro; Okabe, Tomosaburo

Recently, frontal impact compatibility is discussed internationally and various procedures to assess compatibility and various measures to improve compatibility have been proposed. Considering the above, car to car tests between a heavy car and a light car were conducted to clarify the effect of homogenizing the front structure on compatibility. Then correlation between the results of the barrier impact tests proposed as the procedures to assess compatibility and the car to car test results and the requirements for the assessment procedure were discussed.

Year

Entry

1998

Steyer C, Delhommeau M, Delannoy P. Proposal to improve compatibility in head on collisions. In: Proceedings of the 16th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV). May 31–June 4, 1998; Windsor, Ontario, Canada.682-692.

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Entry

2005

Verma MK, Lavelle JP, Tan SA, Lange RC. Injury patterns and effective countermeasures for vehicle collision compatibility. In: Proceedings of the 19th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV). June 6-9, 2005; Washington, DC.

2005

Watanabe T, Hirayama S, Obayashi K, Okabe T. Research on stiffness matching between vehicles for frontal impact compatibility. In: Proceedings of the 19th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV). June 6-9, 2005; Washington, DC.

2007

Hirayama S, Watanabe T, Obayashi K, Okabe T. Second report of research on stiffness matching between vehicles for frontal impact compatibility. In: Proceedings of the 20th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV). June 18-21, 2007; Lyon, France.