Citation

Faerber E, Glaeser KP. Proc. IRCOBI 1982; 10: 270-280.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1982, International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury)

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Abstract

The statistical data of pedestrian accidents show the need for a practicable standard test for improving vehicle design for better pedestrian protection. Although many problems are still open a step to step approach can be realized. It can be concluded, that under the chosen test methodology, presented in this paper, the variations of dummy loadings are in the same range as in other established standardized car impact tests. For the immediate future a combination of full scale and body segment impactor tests seems to be practicable. Calculations with dynamic mathematical models, once verified satisfactorily, in combination with impactor tests are a cheaper solution which could be introduced later. (TRRL)