NTL Record

Title Revised THOR 50th Percentile Male Dummy Seating Procedure
Record ID 66523
Personal Name
Creator
Louden, Allison E.
Corporate Creator United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Vehicle Research and Test Center
Corporate
Contributor
United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Publisher United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Publication Date 20190600
Language English
Abstract NHTSA developed a seating procedure for the THOR 50th percentile male dummy (THOR-50M). The original procedure was released with a December 2015 Request for Comments (RFC), and some updates were presented at a public meeting at NHTSA’s Vehicle Research and Test Center in August 2016. This report discusses the changes to the seating procedure since the original version released with the RFC. These changes were made to reflect up-dates to the THOR-50M, additional experience using the procedure, and comments received. Some of the revisions were minor wording changes to better clarify the steps of the procedure. The more significant revisions to the procedure are discussed in this report, and they include heel point definitions for different accelerator pedal types, seat fore/aft position, H-point tolerances, and final head angle. The revised procedures for seating the THOR-50M in the driver and right front passenger positions are detailed in the appendices.
Public Note Louden, A. E. (2019, June). Revised THOR 50th percentile male dummy seating procedure (Report No. DOT HS 812 746). Washington, DC: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Rosap ID dot:40786
Rosap URL https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/40786
TRT Terms Dummies; Crash victim simulation; Crash injury research
General Subjects THOR; THOR-50M; seating procedure
Geographical
Coverage
United States
TRIS Online
Accession No
1711252
Report Number DOT HS 812 746
Resource type Tech Report
URL https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/66000/66500/66523/DOT_HS_812_746_20190612.pdf
Format PDF
Database NTL Digital Repository