Citation

Yonezawa H, Hosokawa N, Minda H, Notsu M. Proc. Int. Tech. Conf. Enhanced Safety Vehicles 2005; 2005: 8p.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, In public domain, Publisher National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)

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Abstract

Various countries are independently conducting side impact tests with actual vehicles, resulting in extensive revisions of safety measures for accidents involving side collisions. However, the number of people injured and killed in these collisions remains high, and so more effective overall measures, including those for the vehicle itself, are urgently needed. The International Harmonized Research Activities committee (IHRA) is actively conducting research toward enacting laws to standardize future methods of side impact tests as one way to realize international harmonization projects. This has led to movable deformable barrier (MDB) improvements as well as the improvement and development of dummies. This report is intended to be useful for IHRA research activities. Tests were conducted using the improved dummies (ES-2, ES-2re) and AE-MDB in order to provide research results for comparison with body and dummy responses obtained in conditions complying with current regulations in Japan and Europe, and proposed regulations in the United States.