Publications by authors named "David Renfroe"

Side impact crashes are the second most severe motor vehicle accidents resulting in serious and fatal injuries. One of the occupant restraint systems in the vehicle is the three point lap/shoulder harness. However, the lap/shoulder restraint is not effective in a far-side crash (impact is opposite to the occupant location) since the occupant may slip out of the shoulder harness.

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In the event of a large scale, biological or chemical terrorist attack it is unlikely that local emergency response organizations will have sufficient quantities of dedicated ambulances to evacuate all of the affected victims. As a potential solution to this problem, we have developed a device that can be retrofitted to a variety of government or civilian utility vehicles in order to convert them for emergency medical transport (US Pat. 7,028,351).

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Various studies have reported that inertially sensitive buckles are susceptible to impact unlatching. The present work synthesizes the results from various experimental studies conducted over the years to study the mechanical behavior of buckles and subsequent injuries to occupants. First, the side press button seat buckle due to impact a lateral impact from an adjacent child restraint seat component indicated that the side button RCF-67 buckle released at a speed of 2.

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