Dummy Management 

The Dummy Management team provides our customer (NHTSA) the resources necessary for meeting existing and near-term projected needs for crash test dummies and instrumentation in a timely and cost effective manor. The functions performed include:

• procurement of dummies, dummy parts, and dummy transducers
• inspection and quality control
• storage
• inventory control
• repair and refurbishment
• calibration
• shipping and receiving
• special tasks to evaluate proposed updates or modifications to dummies, instrumentation and procedures.

This team is in the unique position to coalesce NHTSA’s user observations to affect dummy design and share its technical expertise with the NTHSA and Society of Automotive Engineers dummy user community.

Dummy Management Information:

ATD Storage Cart Drawings	ReadMe.pdf ATD Storage Cart Drawings DL100-050 in Adobe Acrobat format ATD Storage Cart Drawings DL100-050 in Autocad 2000 (.dwg) format)
Dummy Hangar for CRABI-12 Month Old and HIII 3 Year Old	Drawings of Dummy Hangar for CRABI-12 Month Old and HIII 3 Year Old - Adobe Acrobat format Drawings of Dummy Hangar for CRABI-12 Month Old and HIII 3 Year Old - Autocad 2000 (.dwg) format)

Recent Publications:

• Nine Accelerometer Array Head Evaluation, Aug 8, 2001.
• Procedures for Checking and Recording Dummy Accelerometer Polarity For the Hybrid III 50th and 5th Percentile Nine Accelerometer Array Head with Redundant C.G. Accelerometers, April 2001.  Download this document (Adobe Acrobat format, 38 KB)
• Procedures for Assembly, Disassembly, and Inspection (PADI) of the Hybrid III 5th Percentile Female Dummy’s Nine Accelerometer Array Head (NAAH) with Redundant Head C.G. Accelerometers, Feb 2001.  Download this document (Adobe Acrobat format, 6.0 MB)
• Procedures for Assembly, Disassembly, and Inspection (PADI) of the Hybrid III 50th Percentile Dummy’s Nine Accelerometer Array Head (NAAH) with Redundant Head C.G. Accelerometers, Feb 2001.  Download this document (Adobe Acrobat format, 2.1 MB)