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Re: Injury Potential In Low-Speed Rear-End Crash

Rod Macdonald (frmrmtr@aol.com)
Sat, 25 Oct 1997 08:15:39 -0400 (EDT)

Was my question too, Ed, thanks for asking...regardless, whatever "should" have happened, but didn't, isn't relevant is it ? maybe I'm not reading right

SAE 950352, Data and Methods for Estimaating the Severity of Minor Impacts, by Macinnis Engineering Associates

"Acceleration Perturbations of Daily Living, A Comparison to 'Whiplash'"
SPINE, Volume 19, Number 11, c. 1994 J.P.Lippencott

in the SAE paper MEA references the bumper car testing, as well as numerous other tests and their own extenstive researh.

the Spine article contains the "chair" testing - a vector acceleration of 10.1g for plopping passively backward into a low backed office chair - with no injury resulting. a sneeze generated 2.9g
Rod Macdonald
frmrmtr@aol.com

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