Technical Paper
Comparison of Behaviours for PART 572 and APROD Dummies Tested as Pedestrians Impacted by a Car, Under Identical Test Conditioning
1983-02-01
830185
Experimental simulations of car pedestrian collisions were conducted with production cars impacting a pedestrian dummy derived from PART 572 ; the tests were performed under well standardized conditions to try to limit experimental dispersions. The results corresponding to one series of tests are presented. The comparison of kinematical behaviour of this dummy and human subjects impacted by an other way under identical realistic test conditions displayed differences in kinematics and response at impact between these two kinds of surrogates. These differences can be explained largely by the greater stiffness of the PART 572 dummy, as compared to human subjects. For this reason, it was determined to duplicate the tests performed with the PART 572 dummy with a new series of tests with one APROD dummy, modified in a pedestrian version.