Plastic water drums used in crash testing
Submitted: Sunday, Feb 03, 2008 at 17:43
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George_M
I just saw a TV show on vehicle crash testing, and was interested to see that in some of the crash tests the weight of a back
seat passenger was simulated by the use of plastic water drums.
These single piece drums conformed to the shape of the
seat - a vertical section up the back of the
seat that held about 30 litres of water; a horizontal section on the
seat itself which held about 20 litres of water; and a vertical section down the front of the
seat (where your legs go) that seemed to hold about 15 litres of water. The whole lot was held in place by the
seat belt.
Is anyone familiar with these units, particularly in terms of where you would get them, and how practical they would be for carrying relatively large amounts of water safely?
George_M