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Exploratory study on airbag suitability for low engine capacity motorcycles
Aqbal Hafeez Ariffin1, Mohd Syazwan Solah2, Azhar Hamzah3, Mohd Hafzi Md Isa4, Zulhaidi Mohd Jawi5, Nur Izzi Md Yusoff6, Mohd Rosli Hainin7.
Motorcyclist constituted more than 50% of road deaths in Malaysia. Statistics showed that most fatal motorcyclist crashes involved passenger cars: with sideswipe or side impact reported to be the most frequent crash configurations. Many related studies have been performed to completely understand such motorcycle crashes which resulted in many safety inventions. These include installation of airbag onto motorcycle to study its effectiveness in potentially reducing motorcyclist’s injury. However, previous related studies known mainly dealt airbag’s effectiveness for large cc motorcycles. Hence, an exploratory study was conducted to study airbag’s suitability in mitigating rider’s injury during collision for motorcycle with low engine capacity (cc). Two different full-scale crash tests of motorcycle (with and without mounted airbag) side-impacting passenger car were conducted in accordance to ISO 13232. The test results in terms of high-speed video recordings (crash kinematics), motorcycle damage profiles and dummy injuries were analysed and discussed. It could be suggested from the results obtained that an airbag system for low cc motorcycle is feasible and further study is needed for better airbag concept and design which could reduce motorcyclist injury during collision.
Affiliation:
- Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research, Malaysia
- Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research, Malaysia
- Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research, Malaysia
- Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research, Malaysia
- Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research, Malaysia
- Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
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