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Impact Project: Searching for Solution to the Underride Problem
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Abstract
Rear underride crashes kill thousands of people yearly worldwide. Underride guards did not follow the progress achieved by the automotive safety technology. Searching for solutions to this problem, two new guards have been designed and three crash tests carried out. A new articulated, an energy absorbing conceptual guard and a guard constructed according to the European (ECE-R58) regulation were tested. Both the new guards could avoid underride, the ECE-R58 one could not. The tests pointed out that the new articulated guard could be used after a few modifications and the conceptual one needs further optimization to become commercially feasible.
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Authors
- José Ricardo L. Mariolani - State University of Campinas (Unicamp) - Brazil
- Luis O. F. Schmutzler - State University of Campinas (Unicamp) - Brazil
- Antonio Celso F. Arruda - State University of Campinas (Unicamp) - Brazil
- Sidney Occhipinti - State University of Campinas (Unicamp) - Brazil
- Paulo Sérgio P. dos Santos
- Julio Cesar Stellute - General Motors do Brazil
- José Celso Mazarin - General Motors do Brazil
Citation
Mariolani, J., Schmutzler, L., Arruda, A., Occhipinti, S. et al., "Impact Project: Searching for Solution to the Underride Problem," SAE Technical Paper 982755, 1998, https://doi.org/10.4271/982755.Also In
References
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