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Racing Car Restraint System Frontal Crash Performance Testing
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This paper presents the results of a series of over 30 impact sled simulations of racing car frontal crashes conducted as part of the GM Motorsports Safety Technology Research Program. A Hyge™ impact sled fitted with a simulated racing car seat and restraint system was used to simulate realistic crash loading with a mid-size male Hybrid III dummy. The results of tests, in the form of measured loads, displacements, and accelerations, are presented and comparisons made with respect to the levels of these parameters seen in typical passenger car crash testing and to current injury threshold values.
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Melvin, J., Little, W., Jedrzejczak, E., and Pierce, J., "Racing Car Restraint System Frontal Crash Performance Testing," SAE Technical Paper 942482, 1994, https://doi.org/10.4271/942482.Also In
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