Development of the Q10 10 year-old child crash test dummy

Lemmen, Paul; Waagmeester, Kees; Burleigh, Mark; Lakshminarayana, Apoorva; Korschdon, Karl; Visvikis, Costandinos; Carroll, Jolyon; Hynd, David; Pitcher, Mark

Affiliations

¹Humanetics Innovative Solutions, The Netherlands

²Transport Research Laboratory, United Kingdom

Abstract

In Europe, the law requires children up to 12 years or up to 150 (or 135) centimetres to be restrained in a child restraint system (CRS) when travelling in cars. The EC FP7 project EPOCh developed test procedures and tools for impact tests for CRS designed to protect older and larger children in vehicle collisions. The EPOCh project involved TRL, Humanetics, IDIADA, DOREL and University of Surrey. One of the main EPOCH deliverables was the development of a prototype 10-year-old Q dummy.

This paper reports on the development and assessment of the Q10 dummy within the EPOCh project, as well as the subsequent refinement and evaluation of the dummy based on third party testing.

Links

URL: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/esv/esv23/23ESV-000438.pdf

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