A new assessment method for car to truck compatibility
conference paper
Frontal collisions between cars and trucks lead to high fatality rate of the car driver. Therefore the Japanese road administration announced a directive like ECE-R 93 (2000/40/EC), compulsory since September 1st, 2011. As known, this directive describes a ‘rigid’ Front Underrun Proctection (FUP) device installed underneath a truck. However, more lives can be saved when installing an energy
absorbing device. In order to evaluate the effect of this device, a new evaluation method is needed. A practical evaluation method is to carry out a car to truck collision test and to evaluate the injury of the dummy inside the car. But this test is rather complicated and quite expensive. The authors made an investigation to remove the dummy from the car and to use the signals obtained from the car for determination of the crash severity and to evaluate the effect of the e. a. FUP device. Furthermore, an outlook to replace the car by a more generic device, e. g. by use of a Moving Progressive Deformable Barrier, has been considered.
absorbing device. In order to evaluate the effect of this device, a new evaluation method is needed. A practical evaluation method is to carry out a car to truck collision test and to evaluate the injury of the dummy inside the car. But this test is rather complicated and quite expensive. The authors made an investigation to remove the dummy from the car and to use the signals obtained from the car for determination of the crash severity and to evaluate the effect of the e. a. FUP device. Furthermore, an outlook to replace the car by a more generic device, e. g. by use of a Moving Progressive Deformable Barrier, has been considered.
TNO Identifier
462445
Source title
DEKRA Symposium Safety of Commercial Vehicles, Stuttgart, Germany, November 8, 2012
Collation
14 p.
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