EEVC approach to the improvement of crash compatibility between passenger cars

Faerber, Eberhard

Affiliations

¹Bundesanstalt für Strassenwesen (BASt), Federal Highway Research Institute, Germany

Abstract

The objective of European Enhanced Vehicle-safety Committee (EEVC) Working Group (WG) 15 Car Crash Compatibility and Frontal Impact is to develop a test procedure(s) with associated performance criteria and limits for car frontal impact compatibility. This work should lead to improved car to car frontal compatibility and self protection without decreasing the safety in other impact configuration such as impacts with car sides, trucks, and pedestrians.

The group consists of national government representatives who are supported by industrial advisers. The Working Group serves as a focal point for European research conducted by national and industry sponsored projects. The working group is responsible for collating the results from this research to achieve its objectives. EEVC WG 15 serves as a steering group for the car-to-car activities in the “Improvement of Vehicle Crash Compatibility through the development of Crash Test Procedures” (VC-COMPAT) project partly funded by the European Commission.

This paper presents a review of the current European research status. It also identifies current issues with candidate test procedures and lists the parameters that should be considered in assessing compatibility. The current candidate test procedures are:

an offset barrier test with the progressive deformable barrier (PDB) face
a full width wall test with or without a deformable aluminium honeycomb face and a high resolution load cell wall
an offset barrier test with the EEVC barrier and load cell wall.

These candidate test procedures must allow assessment of structural interaction, frontal force levels and compartment strength.

The Working Group will report its findings to the EEVC Steering Committee and propose a test procedure in November 2006.

Links

URL: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/esv/esv19/05-0155-O.pdf

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Cited By (2)

Year	Entry
2007	Edwards M, Cuerden R, Davies H. Current status of the full width deformable barrier test. In: Proceedings of the 20th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV). June 18-21, 2007; Lyon, France.
2007	Faerber E. EEVC approach to develop test procedure(s) for the improvement of crash compatibility between passenger cars. In: Proceedings of the 20th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV). June 18-21, 2007; Lyon, France.