Study Concerning the Loads Over Driver’s Heads in Cases of Cars Crashes with Involved Cars of the Same or Different Generation

Abstract

Car occupant protection in traffic accidents is a main target of today cars designers. Known as active or passive safety, many technological solutions were developing over the time for an actual better car’s occupant safety (Henn in Teach Math Appl 17:162–170, 1998). In the real world, in traffic accidents are often involved cars from different generations with various safety historical solutions. The aims of these papers are to quantify the influences over the car driver head loads in cases of different generation of cars involved in side crashes. Both same and different cars generations were used for the study. The paper’s experimental results were obtained by support of DSD, Dr. Steffan Datentechnik GmbH—Linz, Austria. The described tests were performed in full test facility of DSD Linz, in “Easter 2015 PC-Crash Seminar”. In all crashes we obtaining results from both dummy placed in impacted and hits car. The novelty of the paper are the comparisons of data set from each of driver (dummy) of two cars involved in six of seven experimental crashes performed. In the first six crash cases are also analyzed the delays between drivers heads acceleration from strike and impacted cars (DSD Crash Test 2015). Another novelty of this paper consists in possibilities to analyze the influences of structural historical cars solutions over deformation and loads in cases of traffic accidents involved. Paper’s conclusions can be future used for car passive safety improvement.