Pedestrian head impact testing and PCDS reconstructions

Stammen, Jason A.; Saul, Roger A.; Ko, Brian

Affiliations

¹National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

²The Ohio State University, United States of America

Abstract

Pedestrian research and testing at the NHTSA Vehicle Research and Test Center has recently focused on assessment of proposed ISO and EEVC head impact test procedures, and extension of these procedures to additional vehicle frontal surfaces. In addition to test parameter sensitivity evaluation, reconstruction of PCDS (Pedestrian Crash Data Study) cases with laboratory impact tests and computer simulations has been conducted. This paper presents the results of this research.

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URL: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-01/Esv/esv17/Proceed/00184.pdf

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