This paper describes a method for predicting the real-world safety performance of a new or modified car design over the whole range of crash severities where injuries occur. With a knowledge of the crash severity distribution, the overall effectiveness of alternative design approaches can be estimated by correlating lab test dummy responses with real-world injury risks at different crash severities. The procedure can be used for selecting the most effective among several design options or, inversely, for establishing a dummy response limit curve corresponding to a desired occupant protection goal. Tentatively applied to car-to-car side impacts, the method turned out to be a practicable and promising evaluation instrument.


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    Title :

    A Method for Evaluating Occupant Protection by Correlating Accident Data with Laboratory Test Data


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    SAE International Congress and Exposition ; 1989



    Publication date :

    1989-02-01




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English







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