TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Event data recorders in the analysis of frontal impacts
JO  - Annual proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine
A1  - German, A.
A1  - Comeau, J.-L.
A1  - McClafferty, K. J.
A1  - Shkrum, M. J.
A1  - Tiessen, P. F.
SP  - 225
EP  - 243
VL  - 51
IS  - 
N2  - Evaluations of crash protection safety features require measures for quantifying impact severity. Velocity change (delta-V) is the major descriptor of collision severity used in most real-world crash databases. One of the limitations of delta-V is that it does not account for the time over which the crash pulse occurs (delta-t). Late model GM vehicles equipped with event data recorders capture the cumulative delta-V in 10 ms intervals over the crash pulse. Deceleration can be readily calculated from these data and provides a complementary measure of severity that has not previously been available for real world crashes. The relationship between maximum delta-V and deceleration was examined for different vehicle platforms involved in real world frontal impacts and frontal crash tests. Maximum deceleration was observed to be closely correlated to the maximum delta-V.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1540-0360
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -