EUCAR Compatibility

Development of criteria and standards for vehicle compatibility. The intention of this project was to minimise fatalities and injuries in the vehicle fleet by taking into account self and partner protection. It was aimed to develop common design rules to achieve an optimum structural interaction of vehicles. This goal should be reached by requirements on implications of vehicle structure like restricted force levels, dummy loads etc.; it is not understood as a restriction of the design possibilities. It should be achieved as far as possible by computer simulation with finite element models (FEM). The knowledge should be summarised in a suggestion of a procedure for an enhancement of compatibility of the vehicle fleet that could lead to a European standard.