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Regulations on pedestrian safety have been introduced globally since the year 1990 and in India it will have to be met around the year 2016. Process of making vehicle compliant to this regulation requires rigorous design development and testing. Testing involves propelling head-forms (Child and Adult) on bonnet at 35 km/h and 40 km/h and leg-forms (Upper and Lower) on bumper at 40 km/h according to the different National / International / NCAP regulatory requirements A pedestrian protection test rig has been indigenously designed and developed in-house to perform pedestrian protection impact testing in-house. The paper describes the salient features of the pedestrian protection test rig, its functioning, operation and process of acquiring the data for determination of the values required by crash safety regulations.

The traffic noise has been a major source of discomfort to people for decades. Traffic noise is by far the most pervasive of all noises and over 80 million people are exposed to traffic noises of unacceptably high levels in the European Union alone. A major source of traffic noise is the noise generated due to interaction of rolling tire with pavement/road. In order to control this noise within the limits of comfort or regulatory requirements, improvement and engineering is required at both tire and pavement levels. Coast-by noise standards ISO 13325 (UNECE R117) was adopted for tire-road noise measurement purpose. With the introduction of more stringent rolling sound emission limits for new tire from 2012 in international market, a review of current state of sound emission levels emitted from new tire (C1 Category) available to Indian consumer for passenger car has been discussed in this paper.

The customer needs and expectations in the automotive industry have become more demanding in recent past. This puts huge pressure on new product development (NPD) cycle as well as timelines on the automotive OEMs. The design verification and proving falls at the end of any NPD cycle and consumes significant amount of time. The major constituents of design verification and proving phase are the accelerated life tests conducted at a laboratory scale. These tests need to be correlated to the field usage condition in a correct and precise way in order to shorten the time spent in design iterations. This paper discusses on arriving at a correlation between field usage and one of the laboratory scale accelerated life tests for a small four stroke two wheeled vehicle engine through lubrication oil analysis technique. The lubrication oil used in different customer engines is collected from field and analyzed.