Title: Automotive Accident Reconstruction : Practices and Principles, 2nd Edition Author: Donald E. Struble, John D. Struble ISBN: 0367415836 / 9780367415839 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 426 Publisher: CRC Press Year: 2020 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Description
Contents
This fully updated edition presents practices and principles applicable for the reconstruction of automobile and commercial truck crashes. Like the First Edition, it starts at the very beginning with fundamental principles, information sources, and data gathering and inspection techniques for accident scenes and vehicles. It goes on to show how to analyze photographs and crash test data. The book presents tire fundamentals and shows how to use them in spreadsheet-based reverse-trajectory analysis. Such methods are also applied to reconstructing rollover crashes. Impacts with narrow fixed objects are discussed. Impact mechanics, structural dynamics, and conservation-based reconstruction methods are presented. The book contains a comprehensive treatment of crush energy, and how to develop structural stiffness properties from crash test data. Computer simulations are reviewed and discussed.
Extensively revised, this edition contains new material on side pole impacts. It has entirely new chapters devoted to low-speed impacts, downloading electronic data from vehicles, deriving structural stiffness in side impacts, and incorporating electronic data into accident reconstructions.
Preface
Chapter 1 : General Principles Chapter 2 : Tire models Chapter 3 : Subdividing Non-Collision Trajectories with Splines Chapter 4 : A Program for Reverse Trajectory Calculations Using Splines Chapter 5 : Time-Distance Studies Chapter 6 : Vehicle Data Sources for the Accident Reconstructionist Chapter 7 : Accident Investigation Chapter 8 : Obtaining Electronic Data from Vehicles Chapter 9 : Getting Information from Photographs Chapter 10 : Measuring Vehicle Crush Chapter 11 : Filtering Impulse Data Chapter 12 : Obtaining and Using NHTSA Crash Test Data Chapter 13 : Analyzing Crash Pulse Data Chapter 14 : Downloading and Analyzing NHTSA Load Cell Barrier Data Chapter 15 : Rollover Investigation Chapter 16 : Rollover Analysis Chapter 17 : Vehicle Structure Crash Dynamics Chapter 18 : Impact Mechanics Chapter 19 : Reconstruction Using Conservation of Momentum and Energy Chapter 20 : Constant-Stiffness Structures and Crash Plots Chapter 21 : Crush Energy in Accident Vehicles and Non-Linear Structures Chapter 22 : Structural Stiffness in Side Impacts Chapter 23 : Narrow Fixed-Object Collisions Chapter 24 : Crush Energy in Underride/Override Collisions Chapter 25 : Low-Speed Impacts Chapter 26 : Reconstructing Co-Planar Collisions, Including Energy Dissipation Chapter 27 : Checking the Results in Co-Planar Collision Analysis Chapter 28 : Incorporating Electronic Data into Accident Reconstructions Chapter 29 : Simulation Models and Other Computer Programs