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Criteria for the assessment of the hazard potential to motorcyclists from sharp-edged components of road restraint systems
BASt report V374 for the FE project 03.0514
This study examines vehicle restraint systems and their components in detail with regard to their potential hazard to MTWV riders. The focus is particularly on sharp-edged construction parts that can reach MTWV riders during an accident whether the rider is still sitting on the MTWV, is sliding on the ground or is airborne.
To the report
https://bast.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2813
To the documentation
https://www.bast.de/DE/Verkehrstechnik/Qualitaetsbewertung/Qualitaetsbewertung_node.html
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BODY BLOCK DUMMY / BLACK TUFFY DUMMY
In the event of a collision the driver has to be protected from the steering equipment. The Black Tuffy is the test device for such tests. It complies with the following standards:
ECE R12 Standard, SAE J944, FMVSS203
In addition to the PRIMUS Biofidelic-Dummy, CTS has also been a manufacturer of the Body Block for testing steering systems for 5 years now. Our dummies are shipped worldwide and are an important part of vehicle safety development.
ISO 22343-1 standard replaces IWA14-1 and IWA14-2
CTS now offers the following new test procedure:
ISO 22343-1 “Security and resilience - Vehicle security barriers - Part 1: Performance requirement, vehicle impact test method and performance rating”
IWA 14-1:2013 will be replaced by ISO 22343-1:2023 and PAS 68:2013 will only be offered upon explicit customer request.
CTS was involved in the development of the new standard and will be offering tests according to the new international standard from October 2023.
Please feel free to contact us to have your products tested this year so that you can use your product, for example. at Intersec on the 16th.-18th. January 2024 in Dubai.
At the same time, ISO 22343-2 “Security and resilience - Vehicle security barriers – Part 2: Application” was published and replaces IWA 14-2:2013.
3. Report on simulate the position of dummies in a live-fire Generic Hull (GH) test with PRIMUS Biofidelic-Dummy and Warrior Injury Assessment Manikin WIAMan
A series of laboratory scale tests using the Crew Compartment Underbody Blast Simulator (CCUBS) were conducted at the Occupant Protection Laboratory (OPL) at Selfridge ANGB, MI. The tests were designed to compare the responses of a PRIMUS dummy to a Warrior Injury Assessment Manikin (WIAMan) Anthropomorphic Test Device (ATD)...
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Bird dummy for aviation: chickens no longer have to die for this
The company CTS Crashtest-Service from Münster has invented an artificial chicken. It is used in bird strike experiments - to protect life.
By Andrea Walter
It looks and feels like a chicken about to end up in a cooking pot: a bit soft, without feathers, a plastic skeleton shimmers through the silicone. Peter Schimmelpfennig and Mirko Dobberstein from CTS Crashtest Service worked on this artificial bird for a long time. It must be lifelike to be approved for bird strike experiments. That's why every chicken produced here has the same weight: 1.8 kilograms, that's the rule.
Real chickens for bird strike experiments
What hardly anyone knows: To this day, real chickens are used in the aviation industry for the prescribed bird strike tests, for example on engines. They are killed just before the attempt but must not be dead for more than 40 minutes or rigor mortis sets in and that would falsify the attempt.
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Car vs. semi-trailer with fatal consequences for the occupants
Car vs. semi-trailer with fatal consequences for the occupants
As part of a conference for insurers, the crash team led by Ralf Bührmann and Kai Schulte carried out a high-speed crash test with fatal consequences for the occupants.
Due to the collision with the trailer, the entire body of the car was sheared off. Since the rear underride guard, but especially the side underride guard, are almost ineffective, there is no chance of survival for the occupants in these accidents, which are constantly recurring all over the world.
Retrofittable effective rear underride protection
Overall safety concept for semi-trailers: Safeliner
Organisation to raise awareness of the need for underride protection systems:
CTS at the Pedestrian Protection Practice Conference
At the practical conference on pedestrian protection organised by carhs and BGS, the BAST (Federal Highway Research Institute) carried out a reconstruction of a cyclist accident using a PRIMUS breakable biofidelic dummy. This was a crashtest that had already been carried out before with a classic ATD. After the test, the dummy was cut open by Dr Dobberstein, inspected and examined for damage indicative of injuries to a real person. Although the moderate damage to the dummy indicates serious injuries, it also shows how well pedestrian protection measures can work even in an older vehicle.
New test procedures for TL guidance beacons and TL guidance elements
According to the general circular "Straßenbau Nr. 23/2022 vom 14. Dezember 2022 des Bundesministeriums für Digitales und Verkehr aus dem Sachgebiet 07.3", it is possible for CTS to carry out tests according to the TL-Leitbaken and TL-Leitlemente for a transitional period until 31 December 2025. This is based on the already existing accreditation according to EN 1317 and EN 12767 until the testing procedure with the complete range of services is included in our scope.
You can find ARS 23/2022 at: https://www.fgsv-verlag.de/pub/media/pdf/ARS_23_2022_vom_14122022.pdf