Collision Volume 6, Issue 2: Article Index

• A Short History of Nearly Everything! ( … about McHenry and Computers in Highway Safety)
  by Brian McHenry
  
  
• ARC-CSI Crash Team Boot Camp Experience and Crash Test Data Review
  by ARC-CSI Boot Camp Team
  
  
• Intersection Crash Reconstruction - From Cradle to Grave
  by Terry D. Day
  
  
• Applications of GPS Data in Collision Reconstruction
  by Daniel Melcher, Jay Przybyla, Rachel Keller, Thomas Rush
  
  
• Accident Reconstruction Photogrammetry Using Zoomed Images from Digital Cameras
  by Lee DeChant, J Rolly Kinney
  
  
• The Use of EDR Data in Vehicle Accident Reconstructions
  by Raymond Brach
  
  
• Fundamentals of Highway and Roadside Design for the Accident Reconstruction Specialist
  by Francisco Klein
  
  
• Eccentric Collisions and Post-Impact Motion - Busting a Myth
  by Bruno Schmidt, Michelle Beach
  
  
• Crash Testing... Why Bother?
  by W.R. Rusty Haight
  
  
• Peer Reviewed Papers, the SAE and Collision Magazine Mutually Exclusive Concepts?
  by W.R. Rusty Haight
  
  
• My Turn At the Wheel: The Mathematics of a Bicycle Going Down an Incline
  by Peter Bergh
  
  
• PLUS - 2011 ARC-CSI Crash Conference DVD that includes all instrumented data from the live crash testing (video, digital photos, vehicle and scene mapping, accelerometer data, speaker powerpoints and much more). For more information on the 2011 ARC-CSI Crash Conference.

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Collision Volume 6, Issue 1: Article Index

• Vehicle and Occupant Motion in Far-Side Impacts
  By Sean H. Haight and Kennerly H. Digges
  
  
• Extracting Collision Data from Damaged Ford Powertrain Control Modules
  By David M. Little
  
  
• Estimating Maximum Motorcycle Acceleration Rates
  By Wade Bartlett
  
  
• The Speed Triangle: Momentum, Energy and PCM Data
  By Charlie Greear, David Thornburg, and Lee DeChant
  
  
• Applying Heavy Vehicle EDR Data in the Real World
  By William Messerschmidt, Benjamin Smith, and Al Dunn
  
  
• An Accident Reconstructionist's Primer on: Tire and Wheel Rim Marks at Crash
  Scenes
  By Donald F. Tandy, Jr., Jason Colborn, Robert J. Pascarella, Todd D. Hoover
  
  
• Using CDR System Data in Crash Reconstruction or What Does the Term "Complete Reconstruction" Really Mean?
  By: W. R. "Rusty" Haight
  
  
• >GPS Navigation Units: Recorded Data for Use in Accident Reconstruction
  By Timothy J. Reust
  
  
• The Performance of Seat Backs in High Speed Rear Impacts and the Effect to the Occupant
  By Martin Werz and David Bliss
  
  
• Insurance Applications for Crash Data Retrieval: Legal Considerations in 2011
  By Michael L. Merolli, David O. Brink, and Andrew T. Apjohn
  
  
• Preserving Heavy Truck Event Data
  By Gary M. Johnson
  
  

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Collision Volume 5, Issue 2: Article Index

• Model for Analyzing Single Vehicle Rollover Accidents
  By Juan M. Herrera And Anselmo Najera G.
  
  
• Devices For Accident Reconstruction Testing Beyond The Drag Factor
  By Brad Muir And Jon Northrup
  
  
• Post-Collision Speedometer Readings And Vehicle Impact Speeds
  By Robert D. Anderson
  
  
• Determining A "Best Effort" Heavy Truck Acceleration Rate Based On Time, Weight & Distance
  By David A. Stopper, Phillip D. Darnell And Christopher C. Voeglie
  
  
• Light Bulb Filament Analysis From The 2010 ARC-CSI Crash Conference
  By Christopher J. Brignola
  
  
• Crash Data Collection Guide For GM Airbag Electronic Control Units
  By Donald Floyd
  
  
• Time Development Of Delta-V Recording And PDOF During A Collision
  By Bruno Schmidt
  
  
• Vehicle Navigation GPS Units Could Be The Overlooked EDR
  By Timothy J. Reust
  
  
• The Butterfly Effect Of Crash Investigations
  By Robert Miller
  
  
• EDRs And Restraint Systems
  By Bill Davies
  
  
• Reading Data From International Medium And Heavy Duty Truck Electronic Control Modules
  By Dustin Nolen and Gary Johnson
  
  
• Cone Of Departure: A Good Idea, But Not A Law
  By Wade Bartlett and Bruno Schmidt

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Collision Volume 5, Issue 1: Article Index

• Effect Of Directional Tires On Wet Traction
  By: H. J. Herzlich, Robert Swint, Edward Ritsch and B. Unser
  
  
• Wet or Frozen ACM Access Considerations
  By: Sean Haight
  
  
• Insurance Applications for Crash Data Retrieval, Legal Considerations
  By: Michael Merolli, David Brink, Patrick Conran, and Jasmine Garcia-Vieux
  
  
• CDR Evidence Suppressed by Oklahoma Court
  By: George Hall
  
  
• An Abbreviated History Of CDR Technology
  By: Rusty Haight
  
  
• A Variable Deceleration Rate Approach to Rollover Crash Reconstruction
  By: Nathan Rose
  
  
• Retrieving and Interpreting Data from Ford Powertrain Control Modules using the
  Bosch Crash Data Retrieval Tool
  By: Bruce McNally
  
  
• Common Post Impact Speed Analysis
  By: Greg Russell
  
  
• EDR Module Types and Collision Data Available in CDR Supported Vehicles
  By: Chuck Veppert and David Little
  
  
• My Turn at the Wheel
  By: Peter Bergh

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Collision Volume 4, Issue 2: Article Index

• Estimation of Vehicle Speed and Trajectory Based on Video from a Vehicle-Mounted Camera.
  By: Dan T. Horak
  
  
• What is 30?
  By: Lenny Simpson and Greg Russell
  
  
• Momentum - Vectoring in a New Approach
  By: C. Gregory Russell
  
  
• The latest CDR System Data from GM Vehicles Update.
  By: Brad Muir
  
  
• Honda Gold Wing Motorcycle: Linked Brakes and Their Performance.
  By: Gary Johnson
  
  
• Braking Efficiencies of Motorcycles By Experienced Riders in Hard Braking Situations
  By: Lee E. Jackson and Raymond L. Wangler
  
  
• My Turn At the Wheel.
  By: Richard C. Rinker
  
  
• Death Investigations and Their Psychological Effect on Police Officers.
  By: Brian Smith
  
  
• Testing the Last Stop Record in the Mercedes MBE 4000.
  By: Benjamin N. Smith William F. and Ronnie E. DeMonia
  
  
• Automobile Extrication for the Reconstructionist
  By: bill Davies
  
  
• Perception-Reaction Time: Is Olson (& Sivak) All You Need To Know?
  By: Marc Green, Ph. D.
  
  
• Comparison of Vehicle Measurement Techniques.
  By: Daniel S. Peterson, P.E. and James W. Smith, P.E.
  
  
• Commercial Vehicle Dynamics For Collision Reconstruction.
  By: Daniel J. Melcher, Jeffrey D. Armstrong, Jason D. Jupe, and Michael F. Bosworth

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Collision Volume 4, Issue 1: Article Index

• Photo Rectification Plays an Important Role for Determining Fault in a Two Vehicle Crash
  by Lee DeChant
  
  
• ACM Reprogramming
  by Chuck Veppert
  
  
• Signal Processing Applied to Vehicle Speed Measurement and Recording
  by Gary Johnson
  
  
• Accuracy of Selected 2008 Chrysler ACM EDR’s During Braking
  by Richard Ruth & Tim Reust
  
  
• Calculating Speed From Skidmarks
  by Peter Bergh
  
  
• Ranges of Safety Provided by Safety Technologies Used For Reducing Motorcycle Crashes, Fatalities, Injuries and Loss
  by William Belisle
  
  
• CDR Evidence Frequently Asked Questions
  by William J. Melkonian
  
  
• The Mathematics of Turns, Evasive Maneuvers, Lane Changes, and Passing
  by Peter Bergh
  
  
• Using Ford PCM Data to Evaluate Deceleration Rates, Brake Time and Impact Speeds
  by Tim Reust, Richard Ruth, James Morgan
  
  
• Alcohol and Vehicle Collisions - Correlation or Cause?
  by Peter H. Rast
  
  
• Forensic Photography and Crash Reconstruction Part 2: Solutions to Common Problems
  by Robert Wyman

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Collision Volume 3, Issue 2: Article Index

• Close-Range Photogrammetry as a Routine Crash Reconstruction Tool within the Florida Highway Patrol
  By: David A. Templeton, Jr.
  
  
• Vehicle Speed Sensor Calibration
  By: Alan K. Nagel
  
  
• Centrifugal Force Is It Real?
  By: Peter H. Rast
  
  
• Basic Integral Calculus for Crash Reconstruction
  By: Sean Haight
  
  
• Forensic Photography and Crash Reconstruction, Part 1: The Professional Amateur Expert Witness Photographer
  By: Robert Wyman
  
  
• School Bus Rollovers and Passenger Compartment Ejection: Solving the Puzzle Using Videoanalytics
  By: Dr. Ray Turner
  
  
• Bus Braking Tests: With and Without ABS
  By: D. Vangi, A. Virga, L. Pinchera
  
  
• Hydroplaning: The effect of Water on the Roadway
  By:Elvin Aycock
  
  
• CASE STUDY: Motorcycle vs. Passenger Car
  By: Gary Lewis
  
  
• CASE STUDY: A Multifaceted Approach to Collision Analysis
  By: Greg Russell and Rusty Haight
  
  
• CASE STUDY: 2 in 3 Out Revisited (follow-up from Volume 1, Issue 2)
  By: Greg Russell

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Collision Volume 3, Issue 1: Article Index

• Single Point Crush Variation
  By: Jai Singh, BS, MS, ACTAR, John Perry, PhD, Judson Welcher BS, MS, ACTAR
  
  
• Vehicle Fires and Airbag Modules
  By: Timothy Erhardt
  
  
• Comparing Different Sources of CDR Data to "Real World" Crashes
  By: Brad Muir
  
  
• An Alternative Formulation for Symmetric Sine Based Collision Pulse Models
  By: Jai Singh, BS, MS, ACTAR, John Perry, PhD
  
  
• Cable Options for the "CDR System Handyman"
  By: David M. Little
  
  
• Quantifying the Aerodynamic Forces Acting on Objects During a Fall
  By: Kevin Adkins
  
  
• Reconstruction: Seeing Across the Years
  By: Bill Wright
  
  
• The Accuracy of Speed Recorded by a Ford PCM and the Effects of Brake, Yaw and other Factors
  By: Timothy Reust, James Morgan, Richard Ruth
  
  
• Dynamic Accuracy of Powertrain Control Module (PCM) Event Data Recorders During ABS Braking
  By: Richard Ruth, Timothy Reust
  
  
• Getting Data From Destroyed SDMs: Transferring EEPROMs Between Modules
  By: Wade Bartlett
  
  
• CASE STUDY: The "trampoline Effect" in Reconstruction
  By: Rusty Haight, Sean Haight

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Collision Volume 2, Issue 2: Article Index

• General Motors Data Recording: A Visual Approach to the Logic Functions
  By: William Messerschmidt, Jon Northrup
  
  
• Detailed Comparison of Vehicle Speed and the Speed Recorded by an SDM
  By: Timothy Reust, James Morgan
  
  
• Average Daily Ignition Cycles in SDM Equipped, GM Vehicles
  By: David M. Little
  
  
• Application of Drag Coefficients to ABS related Sideslip
  By: David Dye
  
  
• Use of the Combined Velocity Equation In Cases Involving Post-Collision Movement
  By: James D. English
  
  
• Vehicle Crush Measuring: Helpful For Extracting Key Details Of Crash Scenes Part II
  By: Bob Galvin
  
  
• Implications of Symmetric Sine-Based Collision Pulse Models on Force-Deflection Characteristics: (Part 1)
  By: Jai Singh, BS, MS, John Perry, PhD.
  
  
• Using GPS based Data Acquisition in Forensic Accident Reconstruction
  By: R.J. Butler, K.C. Breen, W.R. Fischer, K.D. Bedsworth, N.R. Haupt
  
  
• Quantifying the Aerodynamic Forces Acting on a Vehicle and Projectile
  By: Kevin Adkins
  
  
• Reconstruction and Analysis of Steering-Induced, On-Road, Untripped SUV Rollover Tests (Part 2)
  By: Lawrence Wilson P.E., Michael Gilbert, P.E., Daniel Godrick
  
  
• Effects of Sample Rates on Accelerometer Based Skid Testing and Unit Comparison
  By: Jon Northrup
  
  
• Validating Speed Analysis Calculations with Crash Test Data
  By: Charles R. Lewis
  
  
• Snowmobile Performance Data
  By: Robert Dowd
  
  
• Night-Time Pedestrian Collision Reconstruction Factors
  By: Daniel Melcher, P.E., Jeffrey Armstrong, P.E.
  
  
• European Accident Reconstruction by the Visual Comparison with Crash Tests
  By: Wolfram Kalthoff, M.Eng
  
  
• CASE STUDY: How Do You Deal With a "Secondary Contact"?
  By: Rusty Haight, Brad Muir, Jon Northrup

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Collision Volume 2, Issue 1: Article Index

• Two-dimensional Analyses of EDR Information
  By: Bruno Schmidt
  
  
• Close Range Photogrammetry
  By: Lee DeChant
  
  
• Compartmentalization Compromised: The Issue of School Bus Passenger Safety
  By: Dr. Ray Turner
  
  
• Damage-Based Collision Severity Reconstruction Technique
  By: Mark S. Erikson, P.E., Wilson C. Hayes, PhD
  
  
• Analysis of Collisions: Conservation of Linear Momentum Part 1
  By: Raymond Brach, Matthew Brach
  
  
• Carrying out a high-speed crash test for the Dutch police
  By: Wolfram Kalthoff, Ralf Buhrmann, Eckhard Meyer
  
  
• The Future of Accident Reconstruction
  By: Terry D. Lewis
  
  
• EDR Durability and 49CFR563 Survivability Requirements
  By: Wade Bartlett
  
  
• The Accuracy of General Motors Event Data Recorders in NHTSA Crash Tests
  By: Craig C. Wilkinson, Jonathan M. Lawrence, David J. King
  
  
• Measuring Vehicle Crush ... Find the Method that Works for You
  By: Bob Galvin
  
  
• Reconstruction & Analysis Of Steering-induced, On-road, Untripped SUV Rollover
  By: Lawrence Wilson, Michael Gilbert, Daniel Godrick
  
  
• CASE STUDY
  By: Rusty Haight

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Collision Volume 1, Issue 2: Article Index

• PDOF: Principle Direction of Force
  By: Greg Russell
  
  
• Deceleration Rates of Modern Passenger Vehicles During Straight Line Braking and Yaw Events
  By: Timothy Reust
  
  
• Identification of Unusual Tire Marks at the Scene of a Motor Vehicle Collision
  By: David Dye
  
  
• Motorcycle Crash Investigation: Performance Testing and Review of Previous Studies
  By: Gary Lewis
  
  
• Simulations 101: Anatomy of a Simulation
  By: Terry Day
  
  
• Pictometry in Crash Scene Mapping
  By: Jon Northrup
  
  
• Making History: PhotoModeler Software Helps Knott Laboratory Reverse-engineer the Past
  By: Knott Laboratory
  
  
• Getting Into Print As An Accident Reconstructionist
  By: Robert Stearns
  
  
• Vehicle Dynamic Characteristics of SUVs in On-Road, Untripped Rollover Accidents
  By: Lawrence Wilson, Daniel Godrick, Shaun Kildare
  
  
• Contribution of a Laterally Displaced Vehicle to the Post-Impact Deceleration of a Heavy Truck
  By: Wade Bartlett, Bill Wright, David Brill
  
  
• My Turn at the Wheel - That's Not How I Remember It
  By: George Ripsom
  
  
• CASE STUDY: Follow-Up from Issue One
  By: Brad Muir, Rusty Haight, Dan Miles
  
  
• CASE STUDY: 2 in 3 out - Analyzing the Collision
  By: Greg Russell, Rusty Haight, Brad Muir

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Collision Volume 1, Issue 1: Article Index

• The Accuracy of Speed Recorded by an SDM and the Effects of Brake, Yaw and other Factors
  By: Timothy Reust, James Morgan
  
  
• Analysis of the GM Sensing and Diagnostic Module in 360 degree Linear Momentum Collisions
  By: Weston Brown
  
  
• Motor Vehicle Event Data Recorders Validation and Use of Data for Admission to the Court
  By: Guy Barbera, Olof Jacobson, Bastiaan Cornelissen, Christopher Thomas, Donald Anderson
  
  
• A Review of Various ACM Module Types and Data Recorded
  By: Chuck Veppert
  
  
• Rational Legislative and Organizational Policy for Automotive Event Data Recorders
  By: William Messerschmidt
  
  
• Practical Aspects of Crash Data Retrieval Using the Vetronix (Bosch) System
  By: George J. Hall, P.E.
  
  
• Motorcycle Collinear Collisions Involving Motor Vehicles Equipped with Event Data Recorders
  By: Roman F. Beck, David A. Casteel, Ed Phillips, Jerry Eubanks, Doug English
  
  
• CASE STUDY: Knowing What to Look For and Where to Find It
  By: Rusty Haight, Brad Muir

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