The influence of seat structure and passenger weight on the rollover crashworthiness of an intercity coachFootnote∗

∗This paper was originally presented at the 9th International LS-DYNA users conference, Detroit, MI, USA in June 2006, and published in the subsequent conference proceedings [Citation14].

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