Abstract:The newly updated Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 216 enhances the requirements of the roof crush behaviour as it particularly focuses on the double-sided test protocol. This test will be mandatory from the year 2012 and will replace the single-sided test. The research presented herein aims at investigating the behaviour of a small European vehicle subjected to this newly updated Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 216 and at assessing the effect of the variation in the loading combination of the pitch… Show more
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