Impact Project: Searching for Solution to the Underride Problem 982755
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.
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. Download Citation
Author(s):
José Ricardo L. Mariolani, Luis O. F. Schmutzler, Antonio Celso F. Arruda, Sidney Occhipinti, Paulo Sérgio P. dos Santos, Julio Cesar Stellute, José Celso Mazarin
Affiliated:
State University of Campinas (Unicamp) - Brazil, General Motors do Brazil
Pages: 10
Event:
International Truck & Bus Meeting & Exposition
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Also in:
Truck and Bus Safety Issues-SP-1400, SAE 1998 Transactions - Journal of Commercial Vehicles-V107-2
Related Topics:
Impact tests
Underride guards
Optimization
Crashes
Regulations
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