A study on the effect of safety-belts on subcompact-car occupants in head-on collisions - using scale models
by M. Morisawa, T.B. Sato
International Journal of Vehicle Design (IJVD), Vol. 7, No. 5/6, 1986

Abstract: Hitherto, using scale model cars, we have determined car behaviour in barrier impacts, head-on impacts and right angle side impacts with a stationary car and with a moving car. In this paper, head injury criteria, lap and shoulder belt loads, and the hip displacement of a subcompact car's belted occupant are examined when the car collides head-on with a compact car moving at the same speed in mixed traffic. Simplified scale-model belts and occupants in scale-model cars made by conventional methods were used.

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