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NHTSA data reference guide version 4. Volume 4, signal waveform generator tests

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  • Alternative Title:
    NHTSA signal waveform generator data reference guide
  • Corporate Creators:
    United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
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  • Resource Type:
    Manual
  • Corporate Publisher:
    United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
  • Abstract:
    This guide documents the format of magnetic media (3.5 inch high density diskettes) to be submitted

    to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) for SWG tests. This guide is

    designated Volume IV. NHTSA Data Reference Guide (Signal Waveform Generator Database).

    Three other volumes exist; they correspond to the other NHTSA databases: I. NHTSA Data

    Reference Guide (Vehicle), II. NHTSA Data Reference Guide (Biomechanics), III. NHTSA Data

    Reference Guide (Component).

    While the four databases are similar, they differ significantly as well. Your data submission will be

    returned as unacceptable if you submit data in the wrong format for a particular database.

    The first step in creating a data submission is to determine which volume of the guide (vehicle crash

    tests, biomechanics tests, component tests, or signal waveform generator tests) to use. The surest

    method of determining which volume is appropriate for your use is to check with the Contracting

    Officer’s Technical Representative (COTR) who should be able to identify the appropriate database

    format. The following guidelines will help to explain the differences between the four databases.

    Information in the vehicle database relates to the performance and response of vehicles and other

    structures in impacts.

    The biomechanics database contains information used (1) to evaluate human impact response, (2) to

    evaluate prototype dummy designs, or (3) to evaluate standard dummy designs in new impact

    environments.

    A component test identifies a specific vehicle component and/or dummy part and summarizes test

    conditions. Component tests are conducted on various internal or external components of

    automobiles to provide force deflection or time series data for use in computer simulation models

    available to NHTSA.

    Information in the signal waveform generator database relates to the evaluation of data acquisition

    systems at sites performing vehicle crash and biomechanics tests.

    A biomechanics test always has exactly one occupant; a vehicle test may have zero occupants or

    many occupants but normally utilizes dummy occupants.

    Raw data meeting the requirements of SAE J211/1 MAR 95, CFC 1000 is required unless submission

    of filtered data is authorized by the Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative (COTR).

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