Citation

Dix J, Lee H, Stein D. Proc. Int. Tech. Conf. Enhanced Safety Vehicles 2009; 2009.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, In public domain, Publisher National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)

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Abstract

This paper describes a new test methodology for evaluating occupant injury response in a near side oblique pole impact per FMVSS 214. Given the complexity, time, and cost of using full vehicle pole impact crash tests to develop occupant restraint systems, it is desirable to have a simple test method that allows engineers to develop an optimized restraint system in a timely and cost effective manner. The authors will present a new sled test method that accurately simulates a full vehicle oblique pole side impact test using only minimal vehicle components. This test method was validated using both the ES2- RE representing an AM50 occupant and a SID IIs representing an AF05 occupant. The authors will provide data showing correlation with full scale oblique pole impact vehicle tests. Furthermore, to demonstrate the effectiveness of this test methodology a case study will be presented showing a restraint system that has been optimized for both AM50 and AF05 occupants in an oblique pole impact. The full text of this paper may be found at: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/esv/esv21/09-0466.pdf