| Description |
1 electronic text (xxi, 491 pages) : illustrations, digital file |
| Series |
Society of Automotive Engineers. Electronic publications |
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Society of Automotive Engineers.
Electronic publications
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| Contents |
1. Significance of Rear Crash Injuries -- 2. Head Restraint Position during Normal Driving: Implications to Neck Injury Risks in Rear Crashes -- 3. A New Procedure to Evaluate Occupant Interactions with the Seat in Rear Crashes: A Quasistatic Seat Test (QST) -- 4. GMSEAT: A Computer Program to Evaluate Quasistatic Seat Tests (QST) -- 5. Role of the Seat in Rear Crash Safety -- 6. Performance Criteria for Quasistatic Seat Tests (QST) and Head Restraint Placement -- 7. Performance Criteria for Free-Standing Rear Seats -- 8. Ultra-High Retention Seat -- 9. Human Head, Neck, and Torso Responses to Pendulum Impacts on the Back -- 10. Biofidelity of Rear Impact Dummies for Pendulum Impacts to the Back -- 11. Self-Aligning Head Restraint (SAHR) System for Whiplash Prevention -- 12. The Effectiveness of SAHR Active Head Restraint in Preventing Whiplash -- 13. Energy Absorption Properties of Head Restraints -- 14. Neck Biomechanical Responses with Active Head Restraint Systems: Rear Barrier Tests eith BioRID and Sled Tests with Hybrid III -- 15. Neck Displacements of Volunteers, BioRID P3, and Hybrid III in Rear Impacts: Implications to Whiplash Assessment by a Neck Displacement Criterion (NDC) -- 16. High Retention Seat Performance in Quasistatic Seat Tests |
| Summary |
Role of the Seat in Rear Crash Safety addresses the historic debate over seatback stiffness, energy absorbing yielding, occupant retention and whiplash prevention; and it provides a scientific foundation for the direction GM pursued in the development and validation of future seat designs. It also describes the multi-year research study into the role of the seat in rear crash safety - first by addressing the need for occupant retention in the more severe rear crashes; and then by addressing the needs for an adequately positioned head restraint and changes in the compliance of the seatback to lower the risks of the whiplash in low-speed crashes |
| Notes |
Title from PDF title page (SAE Web site, 08/15/2012) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Also available in print |
| Subject |
Automobiles -- Crashworthiness.
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Automobiles -- Seats -- Testing
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Crash injuries.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Automotive.
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Automobiles -- Crashworthiness
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Crash injuries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780768050462 |
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0768050464 |
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