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Low-Speed Impact Testing of Pickup Truck Bumpers
Technical Paper
2001-01-0893
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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SAE 2001 World Congress
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English
Abstract
The purpose of this paper was to compare the damage to pickup truck bumpers produced by vehicle-to-barrier and vehicle-to-vehicle collisions of a similar severity, in order to determine whether vehicle-to-barrier tests can serve as surrogates for vehicle-to-vehicle tests in accident reconstruction. Impact tests were conducted on the front and rear bumpers of five pickup trucks. Each truck was subjected to an impact with a fixed barrier and with a passenger vehicle. All impacts resulted in pickup truck speed changes of about 8 km/h. Damage produced in the barrier and vehicle-to-vehicle collisions was similar if both collisions resulted in bumper mount damage on the pickup truck. If there was no bumper mount damage, then the bumper beam deformation depended on the shape of the impactor.
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Authors
- Bradley E. Heinrichs - MacInnis Engineering Associates
- Jonathan M. Lawrence - MacInnis Engineering Associates
- Boyd D. Allin - MacInnis Engineering Associates
- James J. Bowler - MacInnis Engineering Associates
- Craig C. Wilkinson - MacInnis Engineering Associates
- Kurt W. Ising - MacInnis Engineering Associates
- David J. King - MacInnis Engineering Associates
- Stephen J. Ptucha
Citation
Heinrichs, B., Lawrence, J., Allin, B., Bowler, J. et al., "Low-Speed Impact Testing of Pickup Truck Bumpers," SAE Technical Paper 2001-01-0893, 2001, https://doi.org/10.4271/2001-01-0893.Also In
SAE 2001 Transactions Journal of Passenger Cars - Mechanical Systems
Number: V110-6; Published: 2002-09-15
Number: V110-6; Published: 2002-09-15
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