Aerospace Medicine Technical Reports
FAA Office of Aerospace Medicine
Civil Aerospace Medical Institute
Report No: DOT/FAA/AM-69/4
Title and Subtitle: Experimental impact protection with advanced restraint systems: Preliminary primate tests with air bag and inertia reel/inverted-Y yoke torso harness.
Report Date: February 1969
Authors: Snyder RG, Young JW, Snow CC.
Abstract: Both the inverted-Y yoke torso harness with inertia reel and the air- bag restraint system have had extensive independent development for some time by several engineering and research organizations for both aviation and ground vehicle occupant protection. The research reported in this paper consists of the first biomechanical primate evaluation of these concepts as experimentally adapted for possible automotive use.
These tests are a continuation of a study involving the relative impact protection and effectiveness of major restraint systems utilized in general aviation aircraft and in limited automotive use. The objective of this test series was to determine how much protection those advanced restraint concepts provided; to obtain preliminary biomechanical and physiological data; to identify problems of technique and applications in occupant protection; and to provide an initial basis for direction of future test requirements. Since over 60 tests of baboon subjects now have been conducted with various restraint systems under identically controlled impact conditions, valid relative assessments of the impact injury protection offered by these systems may be made.
Conclusions of the relative value of these restraint systems for automotive use to protect occupants during impact are discussed from a biomechanical viewpoint.
Key Words: SAFETY BELTS, IMPACT TESTS, STRESS (PHYSIOLOGY), SAFETY, AVIATION ACCIDENTS, PROTECTION, WOUNDS AND INJURIES, PATHOLOGY, PRIMATES, MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS, CRASH INJURIES.
No. of Pages: 22
Civil Aerospace Medical Institute
Report No: DOT/FAA/AM-69/4
Title and Subtitle: Experimental impact protection with advanced restraint systems: Preliminary primate tests with air bag and inertia reel/inverted-Y yoke torso harness.
Report Date: February 1969
Authors: Snyder RG, Young JW, Snow CC.
Abstract: Both the inverted-Y yoke torso harness with inertia reel and the air- bag restraint system have had extensive independent development for some time by several engineering and research organizations for both aviation and ground vehicle occupant protection. The research reported in this paper consists of the first biomechanical primate evaluation of these concepts as experimentally adapted for possible automotive use.
These tests are a continuation of a study involving the relative impact protection and effectiveness of major restraint systems utilized in general aviation aircraft and in limited automotive use. The objective of this test series was to determine how much protection those advanced restraint concepts provided; to obtain preliminary biomechanical and physiological data; to identify problems of technique and applications in occupant protection; and to provide an initial basis for direction of future test requirements. Since over 60 tests of baboon subjects now have been conducted with various restraint systems under identically controlled impact conditions, valid relative assessments of the impact injury protection offered by these systems may be made.
Conclusions of the relative value of these restraint systems for automotive use to protect occupants during impact are discussed from a biomechanical viewpoint.
Key Words: SAFETY BELTS, IMPACT TESTS, STRESS (PHYSIOLOGY), SAFETY, AVIATION ACCIDENTS, PROTECTION, WOUNDS AND INJURIES, PATHOLOGY, PRIMATES, MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS, CRASH INJURIES.
No. of Pages: 22
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