The development of a dynamic rollover rating test

Friedman, Donald; Mattos, Garrett; Paver, Jacqueline

Affiliations

²Consultant, USA

Abstract

The goal of this research is to develop a dynamic rollover test rating system similar to the star-rating system of frontal Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) 208 and side FMVSS 214 compliance, New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) and Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) tests. Until now, the requirement for vehicle and occupant crashworthiness in rollovers has been a structural measure only, the vehicle’s strength-to-weight ratio (SWR), in a static roof crush test.

The short-term objective of this paper is to develop a quasi-dynamic rating system based on predictions derived from the Jordan Rollover System (JRS) dynamic rollover tests, IIHS static tests and finite element parameter sensitivity studies, verified by dynamic test sampling. The rating for the protocol is based on the National Accident Sampling System (NASS) and Crash Injury Research Engineering Network (CIREN) injury risk probability functions.

One method of predicting performance is to adjust the results of a dynamically-tested vehicle, similar to the vehicle whose performance is to be predicted, by the parameter sensitivity relationships correlated to a larger number of dynamically-tested vehicles. Another method is to formulate and then apply a multivariate equation based on the correlated parameters of a larger number of dynamically-tested vehicles.

This paper presents the prediction procedure based on a limited number of vehicles with a wide range of SWRs. The intent is to apply the procedure to vehicles compliant with 2009 FMVSS 216 and, as such, the illustrations herein are examples. In this paper, the procedure is illustrated by a calculation of two parameters, SWR and major radius (MR). Normalization procedures have also been developed to estimate real-world dynamic test protocol performance, as well as the injury measures for 5th, 50th and 95th percentile dummies. This prediction procedure is an interim solution, not a substitute, for compliance or NCAP dynamic rollover testing.

A more detailed summary of the research basis for this effort is in a companion paper 11-0090 “Predicting and Verifying Dynamic Rollover Occupant Protection.”

Links

URL: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/esv/esv22/22ESV-000405.pdf

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