This SAE Recommended Practice describes the testing procedures required to evaluate the integrity of a ground ambulance-based patient litter, litter retention system, and patient restraint when exposed to a frontal or side impact. Its purpose is to provide litter manufacturers, ambulance builders, and end-users with testing procedures and, where appropriate, acceptance criteria that, to a great extent ensures the patient litter, litter retention system, and patient restraint utilizes a similar dynamic performance test methodology to that which is applied to other vehicle seating and occupant restraint systems. Descriptions of the test set-up, test instrumen
SAE J3027-2014 Referenced Document
SAE J1727-2010 Calculation Guidelines for Impact Testing
SAE J1733-2007 Sign Convention for Vehicle Crash Testing
SAE J211/1-2014 Instrumentation for Impact Test - Part 1 - Electronic Instrumentation
SAE J211/2-2014 Instrumentation for Impact Test—Part 2: Photographic Instrumentation
SAE J2570-2009 Performance Specifications for Anthropomorphic Test Device Transducers