Research: Rollover

Improvement of rollover safety for passenger vehicles

Overview

This is a 3 year project funded under the EU FP5 Program consisting of 15 partners from the EU.

Start date: July 2002
End Date: December 2005.

Objectives

Based on the background of the European Vehicle Passive Safety Network a consortium of 15 European Research Institutes, Universities, suppliers to the car industry and car OEMs was formed to investigate the field of current passenger vehicle rollover accidents as well as to propose new cost effective virtual and experimental methodologies to decrease the injury risk for the car occupants.

In the EU 15 approximately 1.7 million persons are injured and 40 000 people are killed in road accidents a year. Although rollover accidents cover approximately 5-10 % of all vehicle accidents, up to 10-20 % of all seriously injured occupants and fatalities were involved in an accident where the car rolled.

Our role

The development of a set of experimental modelling test methods with respect to vehicle structure, vehicle dynamics and the responses of the occupant biomechanics.

Contact:

Gary Brown

Email: gary.brown@mira.co.uk

Tel: +44 (0)24 7635 5534
Fax: +44 (0)24 7635 8534