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在国家航空研究所的最先进的坠机测试设施的合作，关于儿童安全座椅在不同速度的横向雪橇测试中的性能的研究将支持这项任务，并支持费城儿童医院现有的行业/大学儿童伤害研究和预防合作研究中心的扩大。这项研究将对儿童安全座椅的性能和拟人化测试设备的反应进行深入评估。此外，这项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拟人化测试设备相互作用的理解，增加对座椅测试的现有知识，并有助于定义和规范侧面碰撞配置中的测试程序。费城儿童医院I/UCRC和威奇托州立大学之间的这一新伙伴关系将进一步增强该中心支持伤害预防研究的能力，此外，这项研究的结果将加强目前为儿童安全座椅上的儿童发生的侧面碰撞事故定义监管雪橇设置程序的努力，目前尚不存在这一程序。

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.