METHOD OF PRE-CRASH VELOCITY EVALUATION
- 1 Department of Vehicles and Fundamentals of Machine Design, Lodz University of Technology, Poland
- 2 Department of Industrial Engineering and Systems, University of Sonora, Mexico
- 3 Technical University of Lodz, Institute of Electronics, Poland
Abstract
The primary objective of this research is to find the relationship between the velocity of a vehicle in the beginning of the collision stage and the energy causing the deformation during a car crash. The velocity of a car in the beginning of the crash stage is determined by comparison of kinetic energy and body deformation energy. Considering the existing methods there is proposed a new method of calculation of the EES parameter describing the energy equivalent speed. The presented approach enables improving the accuracy of EES parameter calculation.