Collaborative Research: Performance Evaluation of Child Safety Seats in Lateral Sled Tests at Varying Speeds

通过与威奇托州立大学及其国家航空研究所最先进的碰撞测试设施的合作，“儿童安全座椅在不同速度下横向雪橇测试中的性能”研究将支持使命和费城儿童医院现有的儿童伤害研究和预防工业/大学合作研究中心的扩展。 该研究将对儿童安全座椅的性能和拟人测试设备的响应进行深入评估。 此外，该研究的结果将增加对儿童安全座椅和侧面碰撞中不同速度下的拟人测试设备相互作用的理解，以了解座椅测试的当前知识，并有助于定义和规范侧面碰撞配置的测试程序。费城儿童医院和威奇托州立大学的I/UCRC之间的这种新的合作关系将进一步增强该中心支持伤害预防研究的能力，此外，本研究的结果将增加目前的努力，以定义涉及儿童安全座椅中儿童的侧面碰撞的监管雪橇设置程序，目前还不存在。

Through collaboration with the Wichita State University and its state of the art crash test facility at the National Institute for Aviation Research, the study of 'Child Safety Seats Performance in Lateral Sled Tests at Varying Speeds' will support the mission and the expansion of the existing Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Child Injury Research and Prevention at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The study will provide an in-depth assessment of the performance of child safety seats and the response of the anthropomorphic test device. In addition, the results from the study will add the understanding of the child safety seats and the anthropomorphic test device interactions at different speeds in side impacts to the current knowledge of the seat testing and help in defining and regulating the procedures for testing in side impact configurations. This new partnership between the I/UCRC at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Wichita State University will further enhance the capability of the Center to support research in injury prevention, in addition the findings from this study will augment the current efforts to define regulatory sled setup procedure for side impact crashes involving children in child safety seats, which currently do not exist.