Study of Current State of Crash Testing

Abstract

This paper studies the types of crash test that are conducted in the present day by different assessment programs. The types of collision used in different situations and the types of crash dummies used to simulate the human occupant and/or pedestrian, and the barrier type used. All assessment programs basically use the main three types of collision tests, frontal impact, side and rear impact. Also the most widely used dummy in these kind of tests is the Hybrid III dummy, male and female.