Determination of the Impact Velocity of a Motorvehicle According to Crush Measurements Using
REC-TEC Platinium Program

Eng. Cristian–Ion Stoian
cristian68rekord@gmail.com
Mabriond Auto SRL

Eng. Cosmin–Nicolae Andrei
cosmin.mabriond@gmail.com
Omniasig SA – Department for Damage Claims

Abstract: In this article are presented the main characteristics of the reconstruction traffic incidents (car collisions) program REC-TEC Platinum. There are emphasized the main subrutines: CRASH 3 / CRUSH V for estimation of the impact velocity using body crush width and depth.

Keywords: crush energy, planar movement, principal direction of force, deformation centroid.

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Cristian–Ion Stoian, Cosmin–Nicolae Andrei, Determination of the Impact Velocity of a Motorvehicle According to Crush Measurements Using REC-TEC Platinium Program, Romanian Journal of Information Technology and Automatic Control, ISSN 1220-1758, vol. 19(4), pp. 13-18, 2009.