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Injury Mitigation in Locomotive Crashworthiness

Joint Rail, 2005
The objective of this work sponsored by the Federal Railroad Administration is to develop mitigation methods for safety of crew members in the event of train collisions. The measures considered are seatbelts, airbags, a reversing seat, an energy absorbing seat, a load limiting seat, and their combinations.
S. Kasturi, A.M. Galea, H. Nagarajan, S.K. Punwani   +3 more
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Designing for aircraft structural crashworthiness

International Air Transportation Conference, 1981
This report describes structural aviation crash dynamics research activities being conducted on general aviation aircraft and transport aircraft. The report includes experimental and analytical correlations of load-limiting subfloor and seat configurations tested dynamically in vertical drop tests and in a horizontal sled deceleration facility ...
Robert G. Thomson, Ceasar Caiafa
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Vehicle crashworthiness ratings in Australia

Accident Analysis & Prevention, 1994
The paper reviews the published vehicle safety ratings based on mass crash data from the United States, Sweden, and Great Britain. It then describes the development of vehicle crashworthiness ratings based on injury compensation claims and police accident reports from Victoria and New South Wales, the two most populous states in Australia ...
M, Cameron, T, Mach, D, Neiger, A, Graham, R, Ramsay, M, Pappas, J, Haley   +6 more
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Crashworthiness—in Perspective

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1972
Crashworthiness for automotive vehicles concerns more than how the fenders bend. The total system is involved from the vehicle's structure to the occupant's restraint. Field accident data must be used to establish the mix of variables required to provide an acceptable level of crashworthiness.
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Study on the Impact of Crashworthiness Materials on the Crashworthiness Capacity of Double Hull Ship

Applied Mechanics and Materials, 2015
Improving the crashworthiness of ship is an important guarantee for ship security. To fill different materials in the shipboard structure or attach fender devices outside the shipboard are important measures that can improve the crashworthiness of ship.
Dan Li, Hong Bin Gui, Jiang Hai Shi
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Crashworthiness and Escape

2018
While no aeronautical engineer expects or wants their design to crash, accidents do happen, and in the case of aircraft, have obvious potential to be catastrophic. How an aircraft responds after a crash, in terms of access to emergency exits, resistance to fire in passenger and crew compartments, and continued structural integrity to facilitate easy ...
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Crashworthiness by Steels

Since the early 2000s, automakers have begun to massively implement ultra-high strength steels in automotive body structures (Cornette et al. 2001, 2005; Fonstein 2015; Keeler et al. 2017; Allain et al. 2022) to address two major concerns which are:
Dominique Cornette, Pascal Dietsch, Kevin Tihay, Sébastien Allain   +3 more
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On Crashworthiness of Nissan ESV

SAE Technical Paper Series, 1974
<div class="htmlview paragraph">It is very difficult for small cars to protect occupants in high-speed collisions. The Nissan ESV is of lightweight monocoque construction, and its body possesses crashworthiness designed to match the occupant protection system. This vehicle has experimentally proved to be effective in occupant protection.
Kenichi Mitsuhashi, Hideo Shimoe, Norimoto Aya, Makoto Tsutamoto   +3 more
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Crashworthiness of helicopter subfloor structures

International Journal of Impact Engineering, 2002
To improve a helicopter design concept, which meets structural and crashworthiness requirements, a research program is undertaken to study the energy absorption capability of a subfloor structure. In particular, crash tests are performed on the subfloor structure and on the intersection elements, which are components of the structure and can create ...
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Magnesium for Crashworthy Components

2016
Most applications of magnesium in automobiles are for nonstructural components. However, the light weight properties of magnesium make it attractive in structural applications where energy absorption in a crash is critical. Because most deformation in a crash occurs as bending rather than simple tension or compression, the advantages of magnesium are ...
Abbott, T., Easton, M., Schmidt, R.
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