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Taylor & Francis Automotive Accident Reconstruction Practices And Principles Second Edition 2Nd Edition by Donald E. Struble
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 1. General Principles2. Tire Models3. Subdividing Noncollision Trajectories with Splines4. A Program for Reverse Trajectory Calculation Using Splines5. Time-Distance Studies6. Vehicle Data Sources for the Accident Reconstructionist7. Accident Investigation8. Obtaining Electronic Data from Vehicles9. Getting Information from Photographs10. Measuring Vehicle Crush11. Filtering Impulse Data12. Obtaining and Using NHTSA Crash Test Data13. Analyzing Crash Pulse Data14. Downloading and Analyzing NHTSA Load Cell Barrier Data15. Rollover Investigation16. Rollover Analysis17. Vehicle Structure Crash Dynamics18. Impact Mechanics19. Reconstruction Using Conservation of Momentum and Energy20. Constant-Stiffness Structures and Crash Plots21. Crush Energy in Accident Vehicles and Nonlinear Structures22. Structural Stiffness in Side Impacts23. Narrow Fixed-Object Collisions24. Crush Energy in Underride/Override Collisions25. Low-Speed Impacts26. Reconstructing Coplanar Collisions, Including Energy Dissipation27. Checking the Results in Coplanar Collision Analysis28. Incorporating Electronic Data into Accident Reconstructions29. Simulation Models and Other Computer Programs