Development of a General Purpose Rollover Test Device

摘要

The project was undertaken with the objective of designing and fabricating a new rollover test device that offered two significant advantages over previous methods of achieving a vehicle rollover. These include delivery of the test vehicle to touchdown with the ground in a repeatable manner and a great deal of flexibility in the range of touchdown conditions that can be achieved. A general purpose rollover test device was fabricated and tested under the project. A dynamic demonstration test was conducted that demonstrated operation of the device. Based on experience with that test, an operational procedure was developed for the rollover test device.