Passenger car crash worthiness in moose/car collisions

Lövsund, P.; Nilson, G.; Svensson, M. Y.; Terins, J. G.

Affiliations

¹Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Abstract

This paper describes the development and verification of a moose-dummy for testing the crash worthiness of cars in moose-car accidents.

The dummy is based on and verified against the results of a stagedc ollision in which a passengecr ar impactsa moose cadaver. The cadaver test is also described in the report.

Moose-car accidents contribute to about 2 percent of the death casualties in the Nordic road traffic and the type is even more represented among slighter injuries. Since several attempts to reduce the frequency of moose-car accidents have proved to have minor effect improvements of the crash worthiness of passenger cars in this kind of impact might be desirable.

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