University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Mechanical (and Materials) Engineering -- Mechanical & Materials Engineering, Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research Department of Spring 4-28-2020 Evaluation and Update of MASH Test Vehicles Kellon B. Ronspies University of Nebraska - Lincoln,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/mechengdiss Part of the Materials Science and Engineering Commons, and the Mechanical Engineering Commons Ronspies, Kellon B., "Evaluation and Update of MASH Test Vehicles" (2020). Mechanical (and Materials) Engineering -- Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research. 158. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/mechengdiss/158 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Mechanical & Materials Engineering, Department of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Mechanical (and Materials) Engineering -- Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. EVALUATION AND UPDATE OF MASH TEST VEHICLES by Kellon Ronspies A THESIS Presented to the Faculty of The Graduate College at the University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements For the Degree of Master of Science Major: Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics Under the Supervision of Professor Cody Stolle Lincoln, Nebraska April 28, 2020 EVALUATION AND UPDATE OF MASH TEST VEHICLES Kellon Ronspies, M.S. University of Nebraska, 2020 Advisor: Cody Stolle The Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware (MASH) requires full-scale crash testing of roadside features using worst practical impact conditions. Vehicle selection for full-scale crash testing is intended to be representative of the contemporary passenger vehicle fleet. Researchers at the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility (MwRSF) investigated attributes of passenger vehicle sales to determine if the vehicle selection criteria shown in MASH should be revised to accommodate changes in the vehicle fleet.