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The First Standard Automotive Crash Dummy

1969; Linguagem: Inglês

10.4271/690218

2688-3627

J. A. Starkey, J. W. Young, Wolfgang Horn, W. J. Sobkow, S. W. Alderson, William G. Cichowski, M. T. Krag, Julie H. Auerbach,

Automotive and Human Injury Biomechanics

A STANDARD 50TH PERCENTILE ADULT MALE ANTHROPOMORPHIC DUMMY IS DESCRIBED. FOR NEARLY THREE YEARS THE CRASH TEST DUMMY TASK FORCE WORKED WITH THE LIMITED DATA AVAILABLE IN SELECTING VALUES FOR THE BODY DIMENSIONS AND RANGES OF MOTION. THE DATA FOR SPECIFING THE VALUES OF MASS DISTRIBUTION WERE DEVELOPED EXPERIMENTALLY AS WAS A TEST PROCEDURE FOR DETERMINING THE DYNAMIC SPRING RATE OF THE THORAX. /HSL/