Protection of car occupants in frontal impacts with heavy lorries: Frontal structures

Behavior of occupants in car-to-car coll

Behavior of occupants in car-to-car collision using scale model - case of small car in frontal collision against standard car with equal speed : Hideo Takagi (Musashi Institute of Technology, Graduate School), Masaaki Morisawa (Musashu Institute of Technology)

📂 Article 📅 1997 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 138 KB

Generally speaking, the small car is less safe than the standard car, so more study of the conditions for safety in a small car is needed. We use a scale model, because the experiment is simple and inexpensive. Deceleration of the car and occupant in the small car were obtained by the scale model du