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Like any modern industry, the field of crash test was built on the shoulders of giants And if the crash test dummies in the beginning were far from those of high technology we have today, they played a role in developing standards tests that make our more and safer cars.
Take a look at a few selections in the history of dummy crash test to see how they went from man to dummies dummies Some big names.
The first crash test dummies may have been the best, the most sensitive models, the most realistic in history because they were real people Colonel Stapp, an Air Force flight surgeon in the 1950s, noticed that most fighter pilots were dying in car accidents than in plane crashes.
So what he did, he started a crash test curriculum course to test the effectiveness of seat belts, he put mannequins in rescue cars and hit the wood or concrete sound barriers familiar humans also volunteered for the tests, withstand up to 28 gs 28 times the force of gravity or 4,800 pounds of force.
Its results with real people and real models, Stapp recommended several innovative features in automotive security doors with security locks so they wouldn t fly open in an accident, has improved the design of bumpers, panels edge and with an energy-absorbing padding.
While his insight was crucial to the development of tests and safety procedures for the automotive industry, with human volunteers have proved impractical, so they switched to inanimate crash test dummies still in use today.
Believe it or not, before crash test dummies were invented, corpses, chimpanzees, pigs and other animals were often used in crash tests.
This use has been problematic for obvious reasons Fortunately, aka dummies anthropomorphic test devices were developed in the 1940s and Sierra Sam was the first of them.
As volunteers Stapp, Sierra Sam was used by the Air Force, where he had the task a chance to test ejector seats Good ole Sam may not have been testing accidents car, but it was certainly a big step in the right direction.
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Built by GM in 1971 as a compromise between two dummy models that didn t quite make the first year of Alderson research laboratories and other engineering Sierra Sierra Sam hybrid fame, I'm the first in a series modern dummies crash test, it proved to be durable and able to produce standardized results, but it still lacked the sophistication of modern models and completely replicate Couldn t how real humans are affected in an accident.
The dummy model most popular currently used by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NHTSA in frontal crashes is the HYBRID III, a direct descendant of Hybrid I Built in the 1970s, the Hybrid III is September 5 and 173 pounds on the size of the average adult male.
But there is nothing average about this model Her torso has 6 high-strength steel ribs that can simulate human chest deformity think like bones breaking his lower torso lumbar spine rubber that just curves like ours when we sitting.
Although Hybrid III is quite advanced, NHTSA is always looking to propel the recent crash test before Over the years, the administration is working on a sophisticated new model called THOR Cool name, right This can best reproduce the real human movement and is packed with a whole host of sensors to gather detailed information about what happens to our bodies in an accident.
THOR has not yet named the official NHTSA crash test dummy, because it is technically still in development, but the model is increasingly used in crash tests and steadily improves a high-tech member at time.
Arriving next week to learn more about exactly how THOR and what we can learn from it.
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