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1 Rear Impact, Rollover, and Side Impacts, 2011 SP-2303 'International' Published by: SAE International 400 Commonwealth Drive Warrendale, PA USA Phone: (724) Fax: (724) April 2011

2 TABLE OF CONTENTS The Effectiveness of Curtain Side Air Bags in Side Impact Crashes 1 Yoshinori Tanaka, Hideki Yonezawa, Naruyuki Hosokawa and Yasuhiro Matsui National Traffic Safety & Enviro Lab Pressure Sensor Simulation Capability for Side Impact Sensing Calibration 19 Chin-Hsu Lin and Matthew Jerinsky A Study of Occupant Ejection Mitigation in Side Impact Crashes 27 Jeff Dix, Koichi Sagawa and Lalitkumar Sahare Nissan Technical Center North America Selim Hammoud, Daniel Fulk and Alex Cardinali Nissan North America Inc Multi-Objective Optimal Design and Robustness Assessment Framework for Vehicle Side Impact Restraint System Design 37 Yan Fu, Guosong Li, Ren-Jye Yang, Baohua xiao and Krishnakanth Aekbote Ford Motor Company Measurement of Occupant Pocketing Kinematics During Whiplash Assessments 45 Leigh Berger, Lisa Fallon and Michael G. Carpenter Application of Energy-Absorbing Foam to the Seat Base to Mitigate Whiplash Injuries in Rear End Collisions 53 Rami Mansour and Douglas Romilly University of British Columbia Rear Impact Tests of Starcraft-Type Seats with Out-of-Position and In-Position Dummies 65 David C. Viano and Chantal Parenteau ProBiomechanics LLC Roger Burnett Ford Motor Company

3 Investigation of Rear Occupant Head Restraint Interaction in High-Severity Rear Impact using BioRlD and Hill 85 Jeffrey Braganza, Massoud S. Tavakoli and Janet Brelin-Fornari Kettering University Crash Safety Center Fracture-Dislocation of the Thoracic Spine in Extension by Upright Seats in Severe Rear Crashes 107 David C. Viano ProBiomechanics LLC Steering Column Loads and Upper Extremity Motions During Low Speed Rear-End Collisions 117 Christopher Furbish, Matthew Ivory and Michelle Hoffman Biodynamics Engineering, Inc. Robert Anderson Biomechanics Analysis Russell Anderson Collision Analysis & Research Evaluation of the Repeatability and Reproducibility on BioRIDIIg In Rear-Impact Sled Test 133 Si-Woo Kim and So-Jung shim KATRI Myung-Won Suh Sung-Kyun-Kwan Univ Quantifying Occupant Head to Head Restraint Relative Position for use in Injury Mitigation in Rear End Impacts 143 Nima Ziraknejad, Peter Lawrence and Douglas Romilly University of British Columbia Comparing Dolly Rollover Testing to Steer-Induced Rollover Events for an Enhanced Understanding of Off-Road Rollover Dynamics 153 Peter Luepke P Luepke Consulting Alan Asay Woolley Engineering Research Advanced Field Study of Rollover Sensor Equipped Vehicles 175 Stephen J. Cassatta, Anthony G. Melocchi, Huizhen Lu, Lisa A. Stacey and Theron V. Weinberg Stewart C. Wang and Carla J.Kohoyda-lnglis University of Michigan ICAM

4 Rollover Crash Test Results: Steer-Induced Rollovers, Don C. Stevens, Stephen Arndt and Leda Wayne Safety Engineering and Forensic Analysis Mark Arndt Transportation Safety Technologies, Inc. Robert Anderson Biomechanics Analysis Joseph Manning Collision Dynamics, LLC Russell Anderson Collision Analysis & Research Comprehensive Computational Rollover Sensitivity Study Part 2: Influence of Vehicle, Crash, and Occupant Parameters on Head, Neck, and Thorax Response 221 Daniel P. Parent, Jason Kerrigan University of Virginia and Jeff Crandall Design of a Dynamic Rollover Test System 237 Jason R. Kerrigan UVA Center for Applied Biomechanics Acen Jordan Jordan & Co Daniel Parent, Qi Zhang, James Funk, Nate J. Dennis, Brian Overby, Jim Bolton and Jeff Crandall UVA Center for Applied Biomechanics Rollover Testing of Recreational Off-Highway Vehicles (ROVs) for Accident Reconstruction 271 Mark H. Warner and Jon Bready, Collision Safety Engineering, LC Effects of Safety Belt Pretensioning on ATD Motion in Rigid Fixture Rollover Testing 299 James White, Jennifer Sevigny, Antonio Antonucci, Michael Haldenwanger, Bridget M. O'Brien-Mitchell, Stephen Joseph Cassatta and Michael Wendzinski Gerald Cooper Cooper Consulting LLC Thermoplastic Roof Crush Countermeasure Design for Improved Roof Crush Resistant to Meet FMVSS Sandeep Chandrakant Kulkarni GE India Technology Center Pvt, Ltd. Matthew Marks SABIC Innovative Plastics

5 Estimating Variation in Roof Strength Test 323 Xuru Ding, James Blenman, Gopi Neelarn, Yul Woong Hyun, Benjamin Derocher and Dennis Deliso A Comparison Study between PC-Crash Simulation and Instrumented Handling Maneuvers 331 Aaron Kiefer Accident Research Specialists PLLC David Bilek Mechanical Systems Analysis Inc Andreas Moser DSD-Dr Steffan Datentechnik Andrew Webb Accident Research Specialists PLLC Computer Simulation of Steer-Induced Rollover Events Via SIMON 355 Eric Deyerl Dial Engineering Louis Cheng Applied BioMechanics Michael Fitch Dial Engineering

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