TY - JOUR
TI - Deformation energy of a car: technical analysis and estimation ‘from experience’
AU - Zębala, Jakub
AU - Kwieciński, Karol
TI - Deformation energy of a car: technical analysis and estimation ‘from experience’
AB - 
	The article presents the results of a survey that involved determining the energy equivalent speed (EES) from experience, i.e. based solely on the photographic documentation of damaged vehicles after a collision. The aim of the study was to assess the usefulness of this method in the reconstruction of road accidents. A statistical analysis of the obtained results and a comparison between the survey results are presented in the article, i.e. the values indicated from experience and the EES values  calculated based on simulations conducted in the PC-Crash program, called ‘true values’in the article. The analysis of the obtained results shows that the EES estimation using this method can at most be an auxiliary tool in the reconstruction of road accidents, as it only allows for a very rough, preliminary determination of the EES before the application of a more accurate method of determining the permanent energy of vehicle deformation.
VL - 2023
IS - 133
PY - 2023
SN - 1230-7483
C1 - 2720-5983
SP - 29
EP - 38
DO - 10.4467/12307483PFS.23.003.17813
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/problems-of-forensic-sciences/artykul/deformation-energy-of-a-car-technical-analysis-and-estimation-from-experience
KW - Energy deformation; EES; Relative speed; PC-Crash