E-TECH conducts crash tests compliant with NCHRP 350, EN 1317, and AS/NZS 3845 test procedures.

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Each year, approximately 40,000 fatalities and 3 million serious injuries are caused in the United States due to vehicle collisions with other cars and trucks, as well as roadside hazards. Effective highway safety hardware such as barrier systems, end treatments, crash cushions, breakaway devices, truck-mounted attenuators, and work zone safety devices must be used to help mitigate roadway fatalities and injuries. Full scale impact testing has been, and will continue to be, the most common method of evaluating the safety performance of highway hardware.

Test procedures for full scale crash testing have been established to ensure uniformity in the procedures and criteria used to evaluate roadside safety features. The United States Federal Highway Administration has adopted the test procedures given in the National Cooperative Highway Research Program Report 350 "Recommended Procedures for the Safety Performance Evaluation of Highway Features." Whereas the majority of the members of the European Union have adopted the test procedures given in European Standard EN 1317 "Road Restraint Systems" and Australia and New Zealand the procedures in AS/NZS 3845 "Road Safety Barrier Systems."

E-TECH has conducted crash testing compliant with NCHRP 350, EN 1317, and AS/NZS 3845 test procedures on virtually all major categories of highway safety hardware. Regardless of the device type, or the test procedure selected, E-TECH follows a proven systematic approach to help ensure the successful completion of crash test programs and to protect the confidentiality of the client's information. A key element of this approach is establishing and maintaining a traceable link between the test article as delivered and installed, and the documented final results of the test program.

For answers to the most frequently asked questions about crash testing, download this document FAQ.pdf (Acrobat Reader required).

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E-TECH offers a wide range of crash testing services including:

	Test vehicle purchase, preparation, and disposal
	Pre and post-test vehicle inertial property measurements
	Customized test facility improvements
	Test article installation, inspection, and verification
	Head on, offset, angled, and side impact test capabilities
	On-site kinetic energies to 1000 kJ (738 ft-kip), higher energies by special arrangement
	Six-degrees-of-freedom vehicle kinematics measurements
	State-of-the-art fully redundant multi-channel on-board data acquisition systems
	Quick turnaround data processing and analysis
	High speed color video and 16 mm photography with digital film analysis capability
	SVHS , VHS, DV video, 35 mm and digital still photography
	16 mm film to digital video transfers
	Non-linear digital video editing

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Last modified: March 06, 2003

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