Citation

Cheng R, Denton RA, King AI. Proc. Stapp Car Crash Conf. 1979; 23: 263-288.

Affiliation

Wayne State Univ, Detroit, Mich

Copyright

(Copyright © 1979, Society of Automotive Engineers SAE)

DOI

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PMID

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Abstract

A six-axis femoral load cell was designed, fabricated, calibrated and tested in an anthropomorphic test device (ATD) upper leg. It has linear characteristics with adequate output and dynamic response. Its output compared well with that of load cells mounted behind a knee bolster which was impacted by an ATD instrumented with this load cell. Although the axial load was found to be well below the present limit of FMVSS208, the bending moments were found to be high.