Volume 3: 17th International Conference on Advanced Vehicle Technologies; 12th International Conference on Design Education; 8t 2015
DOI: 10.1115/detc2015-46367
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The Effects of Soldier Gear Encumbrance on Restraints in a Frontal Crash Environment

Abstract: Crash testing and validation of Military vehicles has not to date, accounted for the Soldier gear burden. Actual loads imparted onto the occupant in a representative Military vehicle crash test environment have been limited and do not reflect what an occupant would actually see in this type of an event. The US Army Soldier encumbered with his gear poses a challenge in restraint system design that is not typical in the automotive world. The weight of the gear encumbrance may have a significant effect on how the… Show more

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“…Any manually adjusted segments of the restraints were cinched as tight as possible, with the technicians using both hands and pulling until the restraints were as taut as possible.This type of donning would not represent what is seen in the field; the likeliness of Soldier don restraints for another Soldier is low (but possible in certain situations). An occupant donning a restraint has limited ability to pull restraints on himself while seated as tight as a technician at a testing facility who uses his entire body mass to tighten the restraint on an ATD.During the development cycle of the restraint system for OCP TECD, sled testing was conducted as the first step[7]. The frontal crash sled test series used for this effort utilized a rigid seat mounted on a servo-hydraulic sled.…”
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“…Any manually adjusted segments of the restraints were cinched as tight as possible, with the technicians using both hands and pulling until the restraints were as taut as possible.This type of donning would not represent what is seen in the field; the likeliness of Soldier don restraints for another Soldier is low (but possible in certain situations). An occupant donning a restraint has limited ability to pull restraints on himself while seated as tight as a technician at a testing facility who uses his entire body mass to tighten the restraint on an ATD.During the development cycle of the restraint system for OCP TECD, sled testing was conducted as the first step[7]. The frontal crash sled test series used for this effort utilized a rigid seat mounted on a servo-hydraulic sled.…”
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“…The frontal crash sled test series used for this effort utilized a rigid seat mounted on a servo-hydraulic sled. The sled was propelled by an open-loop pneumatic actuator and the acceleration profile was controlled by a closed-loop 10 kHz hydraulic servo-brake A fix rigid steel seat intended for ECE R16 certification testing was modified to accept a 5 th point, to replicate the intended seat design angle and to replicate the mounting of the remainder of the restraints in the intended design locations[7]. The test matrix for the series is represented inTable 14.…”
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