NHTSA’s compatibility research program update

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Summers, Stephen¹; Prasad, Aloke¹; Hollowell, William¹

NHTSA’s compatibility research program update

Proceedings of the SAE World Congress & Exhibition

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¹National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Abstract

This paper provides an update of NHTSA's research activities in vehicle compatibility and aggressivity. This paper pres ents new ly initiated efforts underw ay to develop test assessment meth odologie s intende d to evalua te vehic le compatibility. The rigid barrier load cell data collected from 18 years of the agency's New Car Assessment Program testing are reviewed to e valuate potentia l test measures that may be used to evaluate a vehic le's compatibility in vehicle-to-vehicle crashes. These parameters are then evaluated using a series of vehicle-to-vehic le and m oving deformable ba rrier (MDB)-to -veh icle tests. In these tests, the face of the MDB has been instrumented with an array of load cells to compute test measures. This study is part of NHTSA's ongoing compatibility research program and is being coordinated with the IHRA compatibility group.
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DOI: 10.4271/2001-01-1167

SAE: 2001-01-1167

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