Principal Investigator: Julie Mansfield, PhD, The Ohio State University

Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) 213a describes the regulatory nearside impact test for child restraint systems (CRS). The standard requires the use of the Q3s anthropomorphic test device (ATD) to represent children in certain types of CRS. The goal of this project is to conduct simplified table-top impacts on the Q3s to isolate and quantify the effects of arm position on chest deflection, with a long-term objective to provide information about the influence of arm position in both regulatory and real-world side impacts and the correlation to real-world injuries in children.