Energy absorption of car chassis rails under impact conditions

Although the levels of safety offered to the occupants of cars has improved considerably in the recent past, car users still comprise more than 50% of all European road user fatalities. The predominant accident type experienced is a frontal impact with another car. at speeds below 64 kmh (40 mph). This type of accident is reproduced by the new European offset deformable barrier frontal impact test requirement which supplements the fully distributed. rigid barrier impact test that is still required in many countries around the world.