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SAE Releases `Occupant Protection Technology Collection on CD-ROM'

2 February 2000

SAE Releases `Occupant Protection Technology Collection on CD-ROM'

    WARRENDALE, Pa., Feb. 2 -- The Society of Automotive
Engineers (SAE International) announces the release of the "SAE Occupant
Protection Technology Collection on CD-ROM."  The collection includes over 650
full-text SAE technical papers that focus on the protection systems inside the
passenger compartment and their interaction with the occupant.
    Documents in this collection provide strategic design, analysis, and crash
research information for automotive safety applications.  The CD-ROM is
particularly applicable for engineers, consultants, educators, lawyers, or
other professionals who rely on desktop access to technical information to
improve performance, minimize passenger injuries, and control costs.
Professionals can also use this collection to stay current with the latest
engineering efforts to meet the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration's Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards.
    Topics include interior components, injury patterns, crash research,
airbags, restraint systems, sensors, kinematics, dummy response, materials,
occupant detection, test methodologies, foam and seating, rollover protection,
seatbelts, smart technologies, and more. These key documents have been
presented at SAE engineering events from 1975 through 1999, and a complete
database with bibliographic details and abstracts is also included.
    The Folio(R) search engine for Windows(R) 95, 98 and NT provides simple
and advanced search options in addition to easy-to-use fill-in-the blank forms
that return ranked hit list results.  This comprehensive tool gives users
access to critical data by keywords, author name, document number, meeting
name, or other criteria. Additionally, technical papers are in PDF format
offering crisp text and graphics and expedited print capabilities.
    SAE also offers automotive safety professionals the Accident
Reconstruction Technology Collection on CD-ROM, a collection of over 830 key
technical papers published since 1959; the Stapp Car Crash Conference
Proceedings on CD-ROM, a compilation of over 820 documents presented at Stapp
meetings since 1966; and the Highway Vehicles Safety Database-a bibliographic
reference covering more than 38,000 documents from publishers around the
world.
    The price of the Occupant Protection Technology Collection on CD-ROM is
$299 for a single workstation license.  A free demonstration disc is also
available.  For more details, visit SAE on the web at http://www.sae.org/opsafe,
e-mail elecpubs@sae.org, or call 724-772-7144.