Importance of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards 207/210 in Occupant Safety - A Case Study

Abstract

The purposes of this paper are twofold First, to understand the importance of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards 207/210 in occupant safety and second to enhance strength of driver seat failure components In an effort to create safety guidelines for the vehicles driver seat the Federal Motor Safety Standards 207/210 are applies. These regulations are to ensure their proper location for effective occupant restraint and it also in order to minimize the possibility of anchorage failure due to the forces resulting from vehicles crash. Case study shows, Driver seat model is taken from the National Crash Analysis Centre(NCAC) web is modeled and analyzed using Hypermesh and LS Dyna software's respectively as per standards recommendations. From the baseline results it is observed that failure in seat tracks as failure strain produced 46%is higher than allowable strain 16.5%. Other components are concern. For track providing additional locking J-bracket is may be feasible solution. The theoretical discussion and result failure strain produced strain 11% is less than allowable strain 16.5% in this study can be applied in the driver's car seat design and construction to ensure occupant safety.