Motorcycle Crash Tests at a High Speed Level against Standing and Moving Passenger Cars

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Main author

Weyde, M.

Co-Authors

Priester, J.

Type of media

PDF

Publication type

Lecture

Publication year

2008

Publisher

17. EVU Conference, Nice

Citation

Weyde, M.; Priester, J.: Motorcycle Crash Tests at a High Speed Level against Standing and Moving Passenger Cars. 17th EVU Conference, Nice 2008

English, 18 pages, 18 figures, 35 references

During the last 10 years engineering consultants Dr. Priester & Weyde have performed some crash test series whereby motorcycles and scooters were crashed with collision speeds of more than 80 km/h against the lateral sides of passenger cars. Thereby the cars in some test series were not in motion and in others they had also been set in motion. Due to this test series some distinguishing features to differentiate between total idleness and motion of the crashed passenger car in such a kind of real crash have been emerged.
On the base of consolidated findings by the means of such crash test it is to be discussed which method of accident reconstruction of such a kind of accident is useful and which accuracy is reasonable. In this context it will be especially shown what possibilities and boundaries are given by using the EES-method in combination of a 3-dimensional measurement of the deformation of the vehicles. Last not least an adjusted 3D-modell and its practicability in the programme PC-Crash will be presented.