TY  - CONF
A1  - Langner, Tobias
A1  - Ratingen, Michiel van
A1  - Versmissen, Ton
A1  - Roberts, Adrian
A1  - Ellway, James D.
T1  - EEVC Research in the field of developing a European Interior Headform Test Procedure
N2  - The European Enhanced Vehicle-safety Committee (EEVC) Working Group 13 for Side Impact Protection has been developing an Interior Headform Test Procedure to complement the full-scale Side Impact Test Procedure for Europe and for the proposed IHRA test procedures. In real world accidents interior head contacts with severe head injuries still occur, which are not always observed in standard side impact tests with dummies. Thus a means is needed to encourage further progress in head protection. At the 2003 ESV-Conference EEVC Working Group 13 reported the results on Interior Headform Testing. Further research has been performed since and the test procedure has been improved. This paper gives an overview of its latest status. The paper presents new aspects which are included in the latest test procedure and the research work leading to these enhancements. One topic of improvement is the definition of the Free Motion Headform (FMH) impactor alignment procedure to provide guidelines to minimize excessive headform chin contact and to minimize potential variability. Research activities have also been carried out on the definition of reasonable approach head angles to avoid unrealistic test conditions. Further considerations have been given to the evaluation of head airbags, their potential benefits and a means of ensuring protection for occupants regardless of seating position and sitting height. The paper presents the research activities that have been made since the last ESV Conference in 2003 and the final proposal of the EEVC Headform Test Procedure.
KW  - Airbag
KW  - Bewertung
KW  - Dummy
KW  - Forschungsarbeit
KW  - Kopf
KW  - Prüfverfahren
KW  - Seitlicher Zusammenstoß
KW  - Verletzung
KW  - Airbag
KW  - Anthropometric dummy
KW  - Evaluation (assessment)
KW  - Head
KW  - Injury
KW  - Research project
KW  - Side impact
KW  - Test method
Y1  - 2005
UR  - https://bast.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/765
N1  - Volltext: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/esv/esv19/05-0158-O.pdf.
Außerdem beteiligt: TRL
ER  -