A rear-facing child safety seat holds a child of mass 12. kg rigidly within the interior of

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A rear-facing child safety seat holds a child of mass 12. kg rigidly within the interior of a car. The area of contact between the seat and the child is 0.10 m2. The car undergoes a 30. mph collision. The car’s crumple zone causes the distance traveled by the rigid interior to be 1.0 m. Give the stress experienced by the child’s body in terms of a fraction of the breaking strength of bone, assuming an infant’s bones break at a stress of 10. MN/m2.


Above exercise concern an infant’s rear-facing safety seat as illustrated here.

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Exploring Engineering An Introduction to Engineering and Design

ISBN: 978-0123747235

2nd edition

Authors: Philip Kosky, George Wise, Robert Balmer, William Keat

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