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Vehicle Crush Stiffness in Side Impact

Cristina Echemendia

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This paper describes how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) introduced the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 214 for side impact compliance in 1990. This standard test involves a right angle impact with the striking barrier traveling at 53.6 kmph at a 27° crabbed angle. Afterwards the New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) began testing passenger cars for side impacts with the same FMVSS 214 configuration but at a higher speed (62.kmph). The purpose of this study is to develop a method to measure vehicle stiffness in side impact based on NHTSA’s NCAP tests.

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This paper describes how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) introduced the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 214 for side impact compliance in 1990. This standard test involves a right angle impact with the striking barrier traveling at 53.6 kmph at a 27° crabbed angle. Afterwards the New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) began testing passenger cars for side impacts with the same FMVSS 214 configuration but at a higher speed (62.kmph). The purpose of this study is to develop a method to measure vehicle stiffness in side impact based on NHTSA’s NCAP tests.

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This paper describes how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) introduced the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 214 for side impact compliance in 1990. This standard test involves a right angle impact with the striking barrier traveling at 53.6 kmph at a 27° crabbed angle. Afterwards the New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) began testing passenger cars for side impacts with the same FMVSS 214 configuration but at a higher speed (62.kmph). The purpose of this study is to develop a method to measure vehicle stiffness in side impact based on NHTSA’s NCAP tests.

Key concepts: Side impact, Vehicle safety, Crash test, Engineering, Stiffness, Automotive engineering, Structural engineering, Crash

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