Improvements in the fronto-frontal collision between personal vehicle (PV) and heavy duty vehicle (HDV)

Soret, Pierre

Affiliations

¹Renault Vehicules Industriels

Abstract

Safety is a major objective in the program of the experimental HDV Virages specifically to obtain improvements in the case of the fronto-frontal collision between a PV and a HDV.

The architecture and the structure of the tractor have been designed in this aim.

To evaluate the obtained performances:

Choiced a typical PV in the market.
Studied and defined criteria of dammage for the structure and for the occupants of the car.
Realized crashes of this PV instrumented as usual with 2 dummies installed in it: first, againsr a stopped serial HDV as reference, and second, against a simulated front part of the experimental vehicle Virages. Crashes have been realized in different cases of speed for the car.
Compared the results of the two types of crash tests and evaluated the gains obtained by the experimental vehicle Virages.

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1995	Scott AW, Hassan AM, Gillam TJ, Mackay M. Car and truck collisions revisited. In: Proceedings of the 1995 International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Impact. September 13-15, 1995; Brunnen, Switzerland.365-374.