Vehicle Accident Analysis and Reconstruction Methods, Second Edition.

Designed for the experienced practitioner, this new book aims to help reconstruction specialists with problems they may encounter in everyday analysis. The authors demonstrate how to take the physics behind accidents out of the idealized world and into practical situations. Real-world examples are used to illustrate the methods, clarify important concepts, and provide practical applications to those working in the field. Thoroughly revised, this new edition builds on the original exploration of accident analysis, reconstruction, and vehicle design. Enhanced with new material and improved chapters on key topics, an expanded glossary of automotive terms, and a bibliography at the end of the book providing further reading suggestions make this an essential resource reference for engineers involved in litigation, forensic investigation, automotive safety, and crash reconstruction. Police officers, attorneys, and insurance professionals will also find the book to be a definitive resource in reconstructing accident scenes Engineering and accident reconstruction consultants Brach and Brach present this text on the methods of vehicle accident reconstruction with the goal of raising the analytical level of accident reconstruction practice such that commonly known scientific, engineering, and mathematical methods become a more common part of the field. Focusing on quantitative reconstruction, and not dealing with such topics as human factors, vehicle occupant movement, and environmental interaction with accidents, the text's chapters discuss uncertainty in measurements and calculations, tire forces, straight- line motion, critical speed from tire yaw marks, reconstruction of vehicular rollover accidents, impulse-momentum theory in the analysis of collisions and reconstruction applications, crush energy, frontal vehicle-pedestrian collisions, photogrammetry, and vehicle dynamics simulation. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR Aims to help reconstruction specialists with problems they may encounter in everyday analysis. It demonstrates how to take the physics behind accidents out of the idealized world and into practical situations. Real-world examples are used to illustrate the methods, clarify important concepts, and provide practical applications to those working in the field.