Control of large commercial vehicle accidents caused by front tire failures.

Details

• Creators:
  Anderson, R.L. ; Nidey, R.A. ; McCormick, G. ; Russoniello, F.
• Corporate Creators:
  Ultrasystems, Inc.
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Heavy duty trucks
  • Truck crashes
  • Tires
  • Failure
  • Crash investigation
  • Alignment
  • Steering
  • Test procedures
  • Testing
  • Trucking safety
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• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Final report.
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration. Bureau of Motor Carrier Safety
• Abstract:
  The Federal Highway Administration of the u.s. Department of ; Transportation is concerned with the loss of life, injury, and ; property damage that result from front tire failure on heavyduty ; trucks. The Bureau of Motor Carrier Safety contracted ; with Ultrasystems, Inc., the Dynamic Science Division (Contract ; No. DOT-FH-11-8562), to conduct an inve~tigation o~ front tire ; failure bn heavy trucks. ·This effort included an investigation ; of the magnitude of the front tire problem, baseline tire fail:ure ; tests, and tests with devices commercially available which ; are designed to minimize the front tire failure problem. Instrumentation ; on the truck was designed to aid in the definition ; o·f the magnitude of the problem. ; Baseline testing finalized the testing procedure and provided a ; comparative evaluation of variations in tire loading, tire construction, ; and misalignments. ; The device evaluation phase involved testing of twelve devices ; and·concepts. ; A ranking of the devices tested and a cost-effective analysis ; summarize the findings of the program.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DOT--FH-11-8562
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/25904/dot_25904_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 23.10 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Highway Administration ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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