Occupant Motion Sensors : Rotational Accelerometer Development

Details

• Creators:
  Warner, A. ; Ofsevit, D. ; Plank, G.
• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Collisions
  • Crash injury research
  • Crash victim simulation
  • Dummies
  • Detectors
  • Fourier analysis
  • Manual safety belts
  • Measurement
  • Motion
  • Passengers
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT-TSC-NHTSA-72-01 ; DOT-HS-820 211 ; PB-214 287
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Abstract:
  A miniature mouthpiece rotational accelerometer has been developed to measure the angular acceleration of a head during vehicle crash or impact conditions. The device has been tested in the laboratory using a shake table and in the field using dummies and humans. The results of the testing show that while the accelerometer is sensitive to angular acceleration it is also sensitive to linear acceleration, and in practical applications a correction factor for linear accelerations must be applied to the rotational output. (Author)
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/10834/dot_10834_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 663.46 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:cf1b00269197cb6962d5da1cf22ddd69fb7ab37539c4f28ab7232d6918c6d45b