Automotive accident reconstruction : practices and principles / Donald E. Struble.

Includes index.

Table of Contents. - Ch. 1 General principles. - Ch. 2 Tire models. - Ch. 3 Subdividing Noncollision Trajectories with Splines. - Ch. 4 A Program for reverse trajectory calculation using splines. - Ch. 5 Time - Distance studies. - Ch. 6 Vehicle data sources for the accident reconstructionist. - Ch. 7 Accident investigation. - Ch. 8 Obtaining electronic data from vehicles. - Ch. 9 Getting information from photographs. - Ch. 10 Measuring vehicle crush. - Ch. 11 Filtering impulse data. - Ch. 12 Obtaining and using NHTSA Crash test data. - Ch. 13 Analyzing crash pulse data. - Ch. 14 Downloading and analyzing NHTSA load cell barrier Data. - Ch. 15 Rollover investigation. - Ch. 16 Rollover analysis. - Ch. 17 Vehicle structure crash dynamics. - Ch. 18 Impact mechanics. - Ch. 19 Reconstruction using conservation of momentum and energy. - Ch. 20 Constant-Stiffness structures and crash plots. - Ch. 21 Crush energy in Accident vehicles and Nonlinear structures. - Ch. 22 Structural stiffness in side impacts. - Ch. 23 Narrow fixed-Object collisions. - Ch. 24 Crush energy in underride/Override collisions. - Ch. 25 Low-Speed impacts. - Ch. 26 Reconstructing coplanar collisions, Including energy dissipation. - Ch. 27 Checking the results in Coplanar collision analysis. - Ch. 28 Incorporating electronic data into accident reconstructions. - Ch. 29 Simulation models and other computer programs.