“Headform impact test” under ECE R043 regulation: analysis and processing of data on dedicated program developed to calculate the HIC index and several correlate results.

I developed my master thesis thanks to an internship conducted at the company “CSI Automotive division”, an IMQ Group that allowed me to grow and immerse myself in the working world. The analysis that I carried out at this company is the result of a discussion with the engineers of the CSI (Marco Bocchino and Paolo Filippa and subsequently approved by my academic tutor Giovanni Belingardi) regarding customer orders. In particular, I conducted the test and successively an analysis of the headform impact test on two different types of plastic compound glass, directly in the CSI Automotive Division facilities. Then, I developed a program with the MATLAB software to implement the data collected during the test in order to obtain the results requested by the client. After the test, I tried to speed up and generalize the program in order to make it useful for different tests. In conclusion, I compared and analysed the results of the program output.