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Proceedings: International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles

Journal Volume: 1996
Journal Issue:
Journal Year: 1996
Articles in SafetyLit: 194

A cable-supported frontal car structure for offset crash situations

A comparison of australian audit crash tests and regulatory requirements with injury prediction

A comparison of sensor systems for measuring three dimensional crash dummy motion

A coupled approach of simulation and optimization to design safety systems

A dummy neck for low severity rear impacts

A linked road injury database: a powerful tool for road safety management, evaluation and research

A mathematical hybrid model for evaluating vehicle performance in car-to-car side impacts

A review of driver airbag deployments in Europe and Japan to date

A standardized motorcyclist impact dummy for protective device research

A study of soft tissue neck injuries in the UK

A theoretical development of deformable barrier tests which account for compatibility

A university's view on motorcycle safety - recent research results and future perspectives

Achieving compatibility at impact

Activities of the new car assessment program in the united states

Adult seat belts: how safe are they for children?

Aging process and safety enhancement of car occupants

Air bag deployment crashes in canada

An analysis of body loads during rollover tests; roof crush and occupant protection

An australian perspective on side impact protection

An investigation of seat design parameters influencing neck loads in low speed vehicle rear-impacts

An upgraded system for crash test data acquisition system evaluation

Analysis of test results of side collisions using actual vehicles

Anatomical study and three-dimensional reconstruction of the belted human body in seated position

Application of iso 13232 to motorcyclist protective device research

Assessment of measures reducing residual severe and fatal injuries mais 3+ of car occupants

Australian NCAP program reviewed -- a comparison of the NCAP performance of 1995 Australian and U.S. vehicles

Australian research in developing the offset frontal deformable barrier test procedure

Automatic recording system and traffic accidents at uncontrolled intersections

Basic analysis of the mechanics of head-on car collisions

Belt and airbag testing with a pregnant hybrid iii female dummy

Belt pretensioning and standardized "slack" dummy

Belt systems in passenger coaches

Board frame. A possible contribution to improve passive safety

Body engineering considerations to improve occupant safety in minibuses and coaches

Body structure of mitsubishi's advanced safety vehicle

Breed temperature compensated stored gas inflator: the only true green solution

Bullbar design for airbag equipped vehicles

Bumper structure for pedestrian protection

Certification of roll-over protection systems for heavy vehicles by computer simulation

Challenges in injury measurement technology for testing of driver air bag systems

Child restraint evaluation program

Collapse and energy absorption of thin-walled frame with polygonal section

Computer analysis for side impact occupant protection

Concept modeling approach of vehicle structure crash/crush fea

Concepts to reduce heavy truck aggressivity in truck-to-car collisions

Consideration for belted fmvss 208 testing

Consumer crash test programs. International harmonisation and scope for injury reduction

Consumer needs in vehicle crash rating systems

Correlation of results from the australian new car assessment program with real crash data

Crash performance rating systems and co-operative activity in europe

Crashes involving road trains in western australia

Crashworthiness testing and ratings from the consumer perspective, and in relation to the vision of zero deaths in road traffic

Current NHTSA drowsy driver R and D

Current research in rollover and occupant retention

Data collection and analysis of vehicle factors in relation to pedestrian brain injury

Design and evaluation of an instrumented abdomen for the nhtsa advanced dummy

Design of an energy absorbing truck-front bumper bar

Development and testing of energy absorbing rear underrun barriers for heavy vehicles

Development and testing of the universal coach safety seat

Development and validation of a deformable featureless headform model using ls-dyna3d

Development of a finite element model of the side impact dummy and application for the side impact protection

Development of active head light

Development of an instrumented biofidelic neck for the nhtsa advanced frontal test dummy

Development of driver side airbag simulation

Development of finite element side impact dummy (sid) model based on dynamic behavior

Development of madymo p6 child dummy model

Development of moving deformable barriers in japan

Development of nissan's advanced safety vehicle

Development of warning strategies and driver-vehicle interfaces

Dummy kinematics in offset frontal crash tests

Eevc test methods to evaluate pedestrian protection afforded by passenger cars

Effect of harness mounting location on child restraint performance

Effectiveness of airbags in australia

Engineering factors affecting the design of multi-modal child restraint systems

European accident statistics related to car-to-truck frontal collisions

Evaluation of aftermarket devices to reposition shoulder belts

Evaluation of tad-50m dummy prototype performance in hyge sled tests

Evaluation of the protective effects of side airbag systems using a mathematical biosid dummy

Examples of evaluation methods of energy-absorbing properties for upper interior head protection

Experience with airbag-equipped cars in real-life accidents in germany

Experimental program of automotive safety assessment and publication activity in japan

Fatigue detection in trucks in normal operations

Field study on the potential benefit of different side airbag systems

Flashing warning lights for school buses

Foam material calibration for the side impact simulation

Foot and leg injuries in frontal car collisions

Free motion headform testing: results and potential design countermeasures

Front seat passengers and airbag deployments

Frontal collision mitigation using intelligent extending bumper

Further improvements for motorcar-headlighting systems

Harmonisation of European real-world crash injury data collection systems

Head and neck injury in side impacts

Head impact tolerance in side impacts

Head restraint measuring device

Heavy truck crashworthiness - 90 degree rollover accidents

Heavy truck crashworthiness - case studies of heavy truck accidents involving truck occupant fatality

Heavy truck crashworthiness - collision accidents

Heavy vehicle in service brake requirements

Human determinants of active safety: results of interdisciplinary driver behaviour experiments

Improved occupant protection through advanced seat design

Improved vehicle design for the prevention of severe head and neck injuries to restrained occupants in rollover accidents

Improvement of motorcycle riders secondary safety by protectors fitted to riders clothing

Improving the safety of commercial vehicles on the basis of entirety observations with accident analyses and crash tests

In-depth analysis of offset frontal crash tests in view of external aggressivity criteria

Influence of abs on rollover accidents

Influence of car weights on driver injury severity and fatalities in head-on collisions

Injuries sustained by drivers in air bag crashes

Innovative vehicle lighting for active safety and comfort

Integration of bull-bars as impact attenuation devices with air bags

Light truck safety concept models and their applications

Linkage of state data and the codes project

Load retention and cargo barriers

Lower extremity loads in offset frontal crashes

Methodological framework for primary automotive safety: system safety approach for the determination of critical scenarios

Modeling of adaptive passenger airbag systems in car frontal crashes

Motor vehicle safety and the electromagnetic environment: a review of their relationships and considerations

Motorcycle impact performance: further results

New vehicle crashworthiness evaluations by the insurance institute for highway safety

Nhtsa's improved frontal protection research program

Nhtsa's vehicle aggressivity and compatibility research program

Opportunities to improve first generation air bags

Optimisation of crash pulse through frontal structure design

Optimisation of the wheelchair tiedown and occupant restraint system (effect of diagonal strap anchorage configurations on occupant restraint system)

Optimization of an intelligent total restraint system

Overview of the national occupant protection use survey

Particle method for airbag deployment simulation

Pedestrian crash data study - an interim evaluation

Performance of tad-50m in vehicle-barrier tests and comparison with hybrid iii

Performance specifications for the neck of a motorcyclist anthropometric test dummy

Photogrammetric methods in crash investigation

Precision replication of motorcycle collision

Protection of children on board vehicles. Influence of pelvis design and thigh and abdomen stiffness on the submarining risk for dummies installed on a booster

Psa peugeot citroen experimental safety subsystems in vsr (vehicle and safety on road)

Quantitative truck spray measurement

Race car safety development

Relationships between computed delta v and impact speeds for offset crash tests

Requirements of comprehensive side protection and their effects on car development

Research concerning vehicle occupant protection for lateral collision - accident analysis of lateral collision and vehicle characteristics in japanese market

Research on the evacuation readiness of bus crews and passengers - investigation of current bus exit performance and effect of easy-to-understand emergency exit display

Results of the feasibility study of a system for warning of drowsiness at the steering wheel based on analysis of driver eyelid movements

Review of occupant protection in light commercial, off road and forward control passenger vehicles

Rollover analysis method of a large-sized bus

Rollover propensity of various categories of australian vehicles

Safety concepts for very small vehicles, example: opel maxx

Securing loads in telecom vehicles to withstand impact

Should car roof pillars be epoxy-filled for increased roll-over strength?

Side impact protection opportunities

Side impact regulation benefits for australia

Side impact simulation techniques for cost effective airbag and trim development

Side impact to children in cars. Experience from international accident analysis and safety tests

Side impacts in australia

Status of prove-out testing of the sid-iis alpha-prototype

Status update of nhtsa's its collision avoidance research program

Test and rating methods to quantify the passive safety of cars

The ability of 3 point safety belts to restrain occupants in rollover crashes

The approval of air-bags etc. - the need for a standard

The biomechanics of the cervical spinal cord in rollover crashes

The correlation between test and real-life accidents for the car-to-car frontal crash

The crash safety of new car models - a comparative accident study of new versus old car models

The development of result presentation in australia's new car assessment program

The development of vehicle crashworthiness ratings in australia

The effects of bull bars on pedestrian injury mechanisms and kinematics

The european secondary safety rating system for cars

The evaluation of sub-systems methods for measuring the lateral head impact performance of cars

The features of the accident data recorder and its contribution to road safety

The frontal impact performance of child restraint systems (crs) conforming to the isofix concept

The gliding zone. A new approach to increase passive safety for vehicles

The influence of force limiter to the injury severity by using a 3-point belt and driver air bag in frontal collisions

The influence of some critical parameters on the simulation of the dynamic human ankle dorsiflexion response

The reduction of the risk of lower leg injuries by means of countermeasures optimized in frontal offset crash tests

The role of calculation in the development and type approval of coach structures for rollover safety

The role of the upper interior in car occupant brain injury

The safety of convertibles in realistic rollover crash tests

The use of advanced analytical techniques in side impact crashworthiness research

The validation of the eevc frontal impact test procedure

The validity of the proposed european pedestrian protection procedure and its expected benefits

Thoracic trauma assessment for the hybrid iii dummy in simulated frontal crashes

Tilting of trucks: a driver education system and warning system

Truck seat belts

United kingdom - new car assessment programme (uk-ncap)

Upper interior head impact protection of occupants in real world crashes

Upper interior impact: test equipment and testing techniques

Usability of in-car emergency warnings according to age and capabilities of drivers

Use of workload assessment measures and methods to assess safety-relevant impacts of in-vehicle device use among heavy vehicle drivers

Vehicle defects in crashes - in-depth vehicle factors study

Vehicle occupant restraint system performance

Vehicle rollover and occupant retention

Vehicle rollover prevention, a balanced approach to a complex problem

Vehicle to vehicle compatibility in real world accidents

Visual handicaps allowed by road vehicle standards

Vsr program - vehicle and safety on road - state of the art at midway

Whiplash associated disorder - factors influencing the incidence in rear-end collisions

Whiplash associated disorders

Working towards a harmonised dynamic side impact standard - an australian perspective