METHOD OF PRE-CRASH VELOCITY EVALUATION
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.