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Low Speed Automobile Accidents:

Accident Reconstruction and Occupant Kinematics, Dynamics and Biomechanics, Third Edition with video tape

Alan J. Watts

Book with video tape
820 pages
6.125" X 9.25"

retail $99.00
Our Price $79.20


 

PI Magazine Bookstore is proud to offer investigators Low Speed Automobile Accidents.

Written for the reconstructionist, attorney, automotive engineer, or other interested professional, it examines the science of reconstructing and analyzing a low speed automobile accident. Learn how to analyze accidents that result in little or no vehicle damage, how the inexplicable final position of a vehicle that would indicate speed much higher than the driver claims, and potential injuries and threshold loads for injury to various parts of the body arising from low speed collisions.

Dr. Watts explains basic concepts of physics, and then applies them to accident reconstruction. The text will be readily understood by any reader with a basic understanding of accident reconstruction. However, full details and equation derivations are provided for those with either higher technical education or a wish to more fully understand the issues.

TOPICS INCLUDE

  • General material loading responses
  • Vehicle crush response for low speed impacts into rigid barriers
  • Crush responses in two-vehicle, low speed collisions
  • Computer modeling methods
  • Energetics of collisions
  • Bumper behavior
  • Integrated hits and other effects
  • Interesting mechanical models
  • Comparisons between the CRASH3 and the POD models
  • Proper solutions to various problems
  • Rollovers and side trips
  • A short course on medical imaging techniques
  • Kinematics, dynamics and biomechanics
  • Neck injury, head injury and brain damage
  • Chest and femur loadings
  • Causes of injury: A review of the low impact, human-subject literature
  • Causes of injury: The statistics
  • Body bouncing and rotations
  • Assorted biomechanical effects
  • Assorted injury-related data and vehicle safety considerations
  • Witness testimony in automobile accident trials
  • Using demonstrative evidence in automobile accident trials
  • A plaintiff viewpoint: Excluding testimony of the defense
  • Biomechanical engineer at trial
  • Mounting and surviving
  • Daubert/Kumho challenges
  • Getting beyond the ipse dixit
  • The medical and biomechanical aspects of low speed accidents
  • Specific examples and animations
  • Accident reconstruction definitions and other notes
  • An examination of Druz v. State Farm Mutual Insurance Company

 

Book with video tape
820 pages
6.125" X 9.25"

retail $99.00
Our Price $79.20

 


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