Ford Festiva Collisions with Narrow Objects
Author: Christopher M. Brown
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 194
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis test report contains the test results from a series of four crash tests conducted at the Federal Outdoor Impact Laboratory (FOIL) located at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) in McLean, Virginia. The tests were frontal crash tests involving Ford Festiva two-door sedans. Three Ford Festivas impacted the FOIL's instrumented rigid pole and one impacted a single-leg 6-kg/m u-channel sign post embedded in strong soil. The objective of these tests was to provide crush characteristic data in support of a computer simulation effort to model a Ford Festiva. The results are presented as data plots of acceleration vs. time, velocity vs. time, displacement vs. time, force vs. displacement, and force vs. time. The data plots were derived from vehicle accelerometer data and rigid pole load cell data. The data from the three rigid pole tests serve as a good baseline for modeling the front-end crush of a Ford Festiva. The one u-post sign support test provides good data to help model the interaction between a Ford Festiva and a small sign support mounted in strong soil.