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Vehicle Safety laboratory |
Manager
M.Sc. Eng. Karol ZIELONKA Send e-mail
Activities of Laboratory apply to:
Testing of:
- complete vehicles and vehicle components;
- vehicle equipment and accessories;
- vehicle occupant protection systems.
for conformity with Polish and international passive safety standards.
Moreover, the Laboratory offers the following services:
- Research work and testing for the purposes of development and improvement of vehicles and vehicle equipment and accessories;
- Testing of other transport means.
Basic measuring and research equipment of the Laboratory:
Catapult for impact tests of complete vehicles of up to 2 500 kg total mass, with up to 65 km/h impact speed, and for non-destructive tests of vehicle component parts and assemblies with programmable deceleration vs. time;
Test stand for dynamic tests of truck cabins, vehicle bodies, and other protective devices (e.g. bumpers);
Equipment for the testing of child-restraint accessory seats;
Equipment for the testing of seats and headrests of passenger cars and buses;
Equipment for the testing of vehicle seat belts, door locks and hinges, interior equipment, and steering wheels;
Measurement dummies: ergonomic, anthropomorphic (TNO, Hybrid II and III).
The testing apparatus, equipment and methods used comply with the international requirements laid down by ISO.
The Institute has authorized software for the recording and analysing of test results.
Accreditation Certificate No. AB 082 issued by the Polish Centre for Accreditation (PN-EN ISO/IEC 17025:2005) within the scope of:
- Safety testing of automotive vehicles as well as equipment and accessories thereof.
The Laboratory is authorized by the Ministry of Transport to carry out type-approval tests for conformity with the following UN-ECE Regulations and EU Directives:
- UN-ECE Regulation No. 11 'Uniform provisions concerning the approval of door latches and retention components
- UN-ECE Regulation No. 12 'Uniform provisions concerning the approval of protection of drivers against the steering mechanism in the event of impact
- UN-ECE Regulation No. 14 'Uniform provisions concerning the approval of safety-belt anchorages
- UN-ECE Regulation No. 16 'Uniform provisions concerning the approval of safety-belts and restraint systems
- UN-ECE Regulation No. 17 'Uniform provisions concerning the approval of seats, their anchorages and any head restraints
- UN-ECE Regulation No. 21 'Uniform provisions concerning the approval of interior fittings
- UN-ECE Regulation No. 25 'Uniform provisions concerning the approval of head restraints not incorporated in vehicle seats
- UN-ECE Regulation No. 26 'Uniform provisions concerning the approval of external projections
- UN-ECE Regulation No. 29 'Uniform provisions concerning the approval of protection of the occupants of the cab of commercial vehicles
- UN-ECE Regulation No. 32 'Uniform provisions concerning the approval of rear-end collision
- UN-ECE Regulation No. 33 'Uniform provisions concerning the approval of head-on collision
- UN-ECE Regulation No. 34 'Uniform provisions concerning the approval of prevention of fire risks
- UN-ECE Regulation No. 42 'Uniform provisions concerning the approval of front and rear protection devices of vehicles
- UN-ECE Regulation No. 44 'Uniform provisions concerning the approval of child restraint systems
- UN-ECE Regulation No. 58 'Uniform provisions concerning the approval of rear underrun protective devices and their installation
I rear underrun protective devices (RUPD)
II vehicles with regard to the installation of an RUPD of an approved type
III vehicles with regard to their rear underrun protection
- UN-ECE Regulation No. 61 'Uniform provisions concerning the approval of external projections forward of the cab's rear panel of commercial vehicles
- UN-ECE Regulation No. 66 'Uniform provisions concerning the approval of strength of the superstructure of large passenger vehicles
- UN-ECE Regulation No. 80 'Uniform provisions concerning the approval of seats of large passenger vehicles
- Directive 70/221/EEC - Liquid fuel tanks and rear protective devices for motor vehicles and their trailers
- Directive 70/387/EEC - Doors of motor vehicles and their trailers
- Directive 74/60/EEC - Interior fittings of motor vehicles (interior parts of the passenger compartment other than the interior rear-view mirrors, layout of controls, the roof or sliding roof, the backrest and rear part of seats)
- Directive 74/297/EEC - Interior fittings of motor vehicles (the behaviour of the steering mechanism in the event of an impact)
- Directive 74/408/EEC - Seats, anchorages and head restraints of motor vehicles
- Directive 74/483/EEC - External projections of motor vehicles
- Directive 76/115/EEC - Anchorages for motor vehicle safety belts
- Directive 77/541/EEC - Safety belts and restraint systems of motor vehicles
- Directive 78/764/EEC - Driver's seat
- Directive 78/932/EEC - Head restraints of seats of motor vehicles
- Directive 89/297/EEC - Lateral protection (side guards) of certain motor vehicles and their trailers
- Directive 92/114/EEC - External projections forward of the cab's rear panel of motor vehicles of category N
- Directive 93/32/EEC - Passenger hand-holds of two-wheel motor vehicles
- Directive 96/27/EC - Protection of occupants of motor vehicles in the event of a side impact and amendment of Directive 70/156/EEC
- Directive 96/79/EC - Protection of occupants of motor vehicles in the event of a frontal impact and amendment of Directive 70/156/EEC
- Directive 97/24/EC - Certain components or characteristics of two or three-wheel motor vehicles
- Directive 2000/40/EC - The approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the front underrun protection of motor vehicles and amending Council Directive 70/156/EEC
- Directive 2001/85/EC - Special provisions for vehicles used for the carriage of passengers comprising more than eight seats in addition to the driver's seat, and adaptation of Directive 70/156/EEC and 97/27/EC
- Directive 2003/102/EC - Protection of pedestrians and other vulnerable road users before and in the event of a collision with a motor vehicle and amending Directive.
Design Department
Manager:
D. Eng. Zbigniew Barszcz
z.barszcz@pimot.org.pl
Acitivities of Department apply to:
- Modernized vehicles as well as component parts and trailers;
- Making of structural calculations with the use of the finite element method (FEM);
- Carrying out of numerical simulations of the behavior of automotive structures in various critical situations.
Basic research equipment of the Department:
- Designer's computer systems used for engineering design work.
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