THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES TO MOTOR VEHICLE – PEDESTRIAN COLLISION

Abstract

Statistics show that at the world level more people die in road traffic accidents than in armed conflicts. The researches carried out in view of reducing the number of victims as well as in view of diminishing the degree of injuries in pedestrians have been numerous in the last decade. EURONCAP association has proposed the car manufacturers, through the EEVCWG17 directive, a partial solution with regard to the changes that must be brought to the front end of the vehicle. Through the present paper the authors have analyzed some theoretical and experimental aspects regarding the frontal collision between motor vehicles and pedestrians, looking at the kinematics and dynamics of impact occurrence for a better understanding of the phenomenon. Likewise, theoretical results were compared with the experimental ones in view of further improving programs and calculation models.