Passive safety projects

• Knee Impact: Desarrollo de un método de diseño del panel de instrumentos de un vehículo ante knee impact en choque frontal. Ref.: DEX-560410-2008-276. Programme: Linea instrumental proyectos I+D. (R&D projects instrumental line)

EN – Knee Impact: Development of a design method of a vehicle instrument panel for knee-impact in head-on collision.

• WHIPLASH: Método de caracterización de asientos para optimizar su comportamiento ante whiplash. Ref.: 07DPI026E. Programme: Incite07.

EN: WHIPLASH: Seat characterization method to optimise performance in the event of whiplash.

• Whiptras: Método de evaluación y mejora de la seguridad en plazas traseras de vehículos sometidos a impactos traseros causantes del efecto Whiplash. Ref.: 09DPI101E. Programme: Incite09

EN – Whiptras: Evaluation method and safety improvement on back seats of vehicles submitted to rear impacts causing Whiplash effect.

• Collaboration on child restraint systems R&D – Test equipment design and collaborative testing. Projects: CHILD, NPACS, Epoch, CASPER

• Side impact – CTAG’s own methodology to reproduce side impact tests on inverse catapult using dynamic intrusions.

• Concept studies – Example: electric vehicle conceptual behaviour in the event of impact and adaptation to the inverse catapult.