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This title includes the technical papers developed for the 2025 Stapp Car Crash Conference, the premier forum for the presentation of research in impact biomechanics, human injury tolerance, and related fields, advancing the knowledge of land-vehicle crash injury protection. The conference provides an opportunity to participate in open discussion about the causes and mechanisms of injury, experimental methods and tools for use in impact biomechanics research, and the development of new concepts for reducing injuries and fatalities in automobile crashes.

Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFM+A), pioneered by Boothroyd and Dewhurst, has been used by many companies around the world to develop creative product designs that use optimal manufacturing and assembly processes.  Correctly applied, DFM+A analysis leads to significant reductions in production cost, without compromising product time-to-market goals, functionality, quality, serviceability, or other attributes.  This course will include information on how DFM+A fits in with QFD, Concurrent Engineering, Robust Engineering, and other disciplines.

Advanced Driver Assist System (ADAS) and autonomous vehicle technologies have disrupted the traditional automotive industry with potential to increase safety and optimize the cost of car ownership. Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensing, a sensing method that detects objects and maps their distances, is seeing rapid growth and adoption in the industry. However, the sensor requirements and system architecture options continue to evolve. This course will provide the foundation to build LIDAR technologies in automotive applications.

On-board diagnosis of engine and transmission systems has been mandated by government regulation for light and medium vehicles since the 1996 model year. The regulations specify many of the detailed features that on-board diagnostics must exhibit. In addition, the penalties for not meeting the requirements or providing in-field remedies can be very expensive. This course is designed to provide a fundamental understanding of how and why OBD systems function and the technical features that a diagnostic should have in order to ensure compliant and successful implementation.

Design and development of a modern steering system influences vehicle response to steering wheel input, driver effort, comfort, safety and fuel economy. In this interactive course participants will analyze the steering system from the road wheel to the steering wheel. Day one will begin with a deep dive into the anatomy and architecture of the lower steering system (wheel end, suspension geometry, linkages and steering gear), its effect on vehicle response and how forces and moments at the contact patch are converted to a torque at the pinion.

As brake systems and components continue to evolve into more complex electro-hydraulic and electro-mechanical actuators, there is an on-going shift in the types of technologies and technical disciplines that are the primary areas of focus. The areas of focus of new technology is changing from primarily mechanical in nature to the areas of electronics, software and controls. This session is intended to provide a forum for a wide range of topics in a diverse but growing area of the brake industry including electronics, electrical mechanical hardware, controls software and algorithms. Additional included topics can be related to A-Spice, Functional Safety, software validation, electrical vehicle architecture design and others.

This session is seeking presentations on updates on the most critical brake related standards work being developed via Committee in the areas of NVH, Linings, Hydraulics, fluids, steering and dynamometer in light and heavy-duty vehicles through a series of pre-seeded questions.

Braking emissions are becoming more and more the focus of the public. Fundamental questions of the quantitative detection of brake dust and its distribution in the environment, health questions are essential. This session addresses measurement technology, theory and simulation for brake emission and ways to minimize the environmental impact.