McHenry Forum - Crash Reconstruction & Simulation

Paper published for NAPARS conference:

• "CRASH Damage Analysis",
  Raymond R. & Brian G. McHenry
  McHenry Software,
  2014 NAPARS Conference

We meant to add this also to this thread... Aug 25, 2014: We have prepared a paper of our 2014 William F. Milliken Invited Lecture The Role of Vehicle Dynamics Simulation in Highway Safety Research by Raymond R. McHenry For additional information, please see The 2014 William F. Milliken Invited Lect...

Q: What is the Barrier Impact Angle Equation? The Barrier impact angle equation is used to determine the approximate maximum angle of a vehicle departure from the road for a given lateral distance. The ability of a vehicle to change its direction of motion is dependent upon its forward speed, the u...

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• Q&A on msmac3D

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it is now
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i have corrected it in prior thread
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just to be somewhat more complete in my response I should have also mention that you also need to consider the collision partner. When you mentioned 'small sedan into small sedan' I made the assumption of similar frontal structures into each other. That may not be the case. A few things to consider:...

Q: My friend recommended you to me as an authority on car crash physics, so I would very much appreciate your guidance on the following: It appears to me (perhaps incorrectly) that if a small sedan hits a parked small sedan at 50mph, each car will incur damage that is roughly equivalent to a small s...

Q: Thanks. Your forum post does help, but of course, it sparks additional questions. 1. Basically msmac3D is msmac2d linked with mhvosm3D for the 3D components of simulation. a. What are the differences between msmac3d and mhvosm? b. Is mhvosm going to be made available at a later date? 2. Is msmac...

Q: Thanks. Your forum post does help, but of course, it sparks additional questions. 1. Basically msmac3D is msmac2d linked with mhvosm3D for the 3D components of simulation. a. What are the differences between msmac3d and mhvosm? b. Is mhvosm going to be made available at a later date? 2. Is msmac...

Q: You mentioned that only a couple additional input parameters would be required to go from 2D to 3D. That sounds easy enough, but what if you want to run a simulation with greater fidelity? How many inputs are there? Would you mind posting an example simulation to your website? I would be most in...