Use of the air track to the vehicle collision simulation with an obstacle

Abstract

The article discusses some aspects of the analysis of road accidents involving vehicles. An air track was used to simulate collisions of the bodies in a laboratory scale. The CoachLabII+ and Cobra3 measuring console were used together with the software and sensors for detection and analysis of the body impact pulse with a fixed obstacle. The usefulness of the Kelvin model for the analysis of the impact processes was demonstrated.