The Traffic Accident Reconstruction Origin -ARnews-

Re: Need help regarding veh. vs. tree and other objects.

Ed Phillips (edphill@aol.com)
Sat, 17 Apr 1999 11:09:49 -0400 (EDT)

Yes, and it's complicated. You have energy being "consumed" by the earth, in providing a moment to rotate the car, by the trip/roll phase, by the guardrail impact, and by slipping along the roadway. There is no simple way to do it. Only careful data collection of the scene and vehicle and a time-consuming dynamics analysis of the energy distribution (some likely to require the calculus).

Any attempt short of that has a potential to return on you like a bad penny.

Good luck on your effort.


Ed Phillips
edphill@aol.com

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