In the field of researches concerning the vehicle passengers protection during side impacts, the first studies were oriented to define a full-scale test procedure as a validation test. Such researches were conducted in parallel in Europe and in the United States. The two side impact full-scale procedures resulting to these studies are very similar, but some parameters are different like the characteristics of the mobile deformable barrier— MDB—(dimensions, weights, rigidities), the direction of its movement, the dummies installed. The aim of the study presented is to look at the influence of some parameters on the global severity of the side impact.

Five tests were carried on with the Impact and Biomechanics Laboratory facilities. In all the tests, the impacted vehicle was similar and the dummy 0n the driver’s seat was an EUROSID. The parameters examined were the basic frame of the MDB, the front deformable face constitution and the MDB trajectory (crabbed or perpendicular). As during every test only one parameter was modified, the influence of each parameter was examined. The results are given in term of vehicle kinematics and deformation and in term of measurements on the dummies.