Rio, J.; Pouget, D.; Casadei, N.

Renault’s ambition is to achieve a vehicle design meeting requirements that go well beyond the requirements of the regulations at present proposed or in effect in Europe, and compatible with both actual road conditions and industrial realities. Our research model is the RENAULT 19, modified to obtain safety conditions by a now conventional procedure involving the following two aspects:

for those of the body in white components which are subjected to the greatest stresses in an impact, improvement of component performance and improvement of the strength of component connections;
fitting out the passenger-compartment walls in accordance with the occupant’s characteristics.

Due to the lack of a suitable dummy for the ISO biofidelity criteria, evaluation is being performed using the EUROSID 1 dummy.

Year

Entry

1989

Hobbs CA. The influence of car structures and padding on side impact injuries. In: Proceedings of the 12th International Technical Conference on Experimental Safety Vehicles (ESV). May 29–June 1, 1989; Göteborg, Sweden.954-962.

1989

Mellander H, Ivarsson J, Korner J, Nilsson S. Side impact protection system: a description of the technical solutions and the statistical and experimental tools. In: Proceedings of the 12th International Technical Conference on Experimental Safety Vehicles (ESV). May 29–June 1, 1989; Göteborg, Sweden.969-976.

Year

Entry

1991

Casadei N. "COVER" safety synthesis vehicle. In: Proceedings of the 13th International Technical Conference on Experimental Safety Vehicles (ESV). November 4-7, 1991; Paris, France.467-472.

1991

Steyer C, Najchaus R. Parametric study on the side impact simulation of Renault VSS. In: Proceedings of the 13th International Technical Conference on Experimental Safety Vehicles (ESV). November 4-7, 1991; Paris, France.549-554.

1991

Tarriere C, Thomas C, Trosseille X. Frontal impact protection requires a whole safety system integration. In: Proceedings of the 13th International Technical Conference on Experimental Safety Vehicles (ESV). November 4-7, 1991; Paris, France.1079-1087.

1991

Walfisch G, Pouget D, Casadei N. COVER: "Renault VSS" safety vehicle frontal and rear impact occupant protection. In: Proceedings of the 13th International Technical Conference on Experimental Safety Vehicles (ESV). November 4-7, 1991; Paris, France.1186-1191.

1992

Kaeser R, Walz FH, Brunner A. Collision safety of a hard shell low mass vehicle. In: Proceedings of the 1992 International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Impact. September 9-11, 1992; Verona, Italy.133-142.