FIAT Panda test session for CRF - Deliverable Report D716B
June 2007, Confidential report

The goal of this activity was to experimentally evaluate the frontal crash behaviour of a normal production car in terms of repeatability and reproducibility of the structural results. In order to achieve this result, it was decided to test three nominally identical cars with the old AMUS test procedure (frontal impact against a rigid barrier, having an inclination of 15 degrees and an offset of 50%, with 55 km/h as initial impact speed). The car chosen for this experimental campaign is the Fiat (new) PANDA.

The selection of the AMUS crash test was operated because of the need to concentrate the attention on the vehicle results only, without having the risk for them to be influenced by the repeatability and reproducibility of the behaviour of an additional deformable structure, i.e. the offset deformable barrier currently used for front crash tests.

The results of these crash tests represent a useful source of data to which some other planned virtual testing activities within SP7 are referring (e.g. the virtual procedure to generate structural “ageing” described in D7.1.5D or the evaluation of new developments of ADVISER software on a real case).

For more information on the report, please contact the Sub-Project Leader.