Acceleration Sensors
Kistler’s crash sensor range includes acceleration sensors for crash applications, including compact piezoresistive solutions in uniaxial and triaxial variants.
Crash Measurement Hardware
Passive Safety Sensor Solutions for High-Accuracy Crash Test Measurement
ATS Group supports crash test sensor solutions for acceleration, force, torque, deformation, and in-dummy measurement workflows used in modern passive safety validation.
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Measure Occupant Loads and Crash Events with Trusted Sensor Hardware
Crash test programs rely on highly specialized sensors to capture accelerations, forces, moments, deformation, and belt loads during extremely dynamic impact events. These sensors are used in crash dummies, load cell walls, test vehicles, and passive safety subsystems where high accuracy and repeatability are essential.
Based on Kistler’s crash-test-sensors category, ATS can position this page around one core product group: advanced crash test sensors for dummies, vehicles, and passive safety test infrastructure.
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Crash Test Sensors
Force And Torque Sensors
The category description highlights force and torque sensors that can be integrated as in-dummy DTI for multiple crash dummy types.
Dummy Load Cells
Kistler lists numerous strain-gauge load cells for dummy locations such as knee clevis, clavicle, lumbar spine, and other structural areas.
Load Cell Walls
The crash-test-sensors category also mentions solutions for load cell walls according to NHTSA, IIHS, and Euro NCAP usage.
Kistler Crash Sensors
Advanced Sensor Coverage for Dummies, Vehicles, and Structural Crash Tests
Kistler describes its crash test sensor category as supplying advanced crash sensors such as acceleration, force, and torque sensors for all types of dummies, for load cell walls according to NHTSA, IIHS, and Euro NCAP, and for use in test vehicles. This makes the category broad enough to support frontal, side-impact, restraint, and occupant-protection programs.
Related Kistler product pages also show detailed families such as K-ACC piezoresistive accelerometers for crash applications, SmartCrash force-measurement elements, deformation sensors like KIR-TRACC, and lightweight seat belt load cells. ATS can position the category as a complete measurement layer for passive safety engineering rather than a single isolated sensor type.
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Why These Sensors Matter in Passive Safety Programs
Standards Alignment
The Kistler crash-test-sensors category explicitly refers to use alongside NHTSA, IIHS, and Euro NCAP crash structures and workflows.
In-Dummy Integration
Kistler highlights force and torque sensors that can be integrated as in-dummy DTI, supporting cleaner measurement chains in anthropomorphic test devices.
Broad Sensor Mix
Acceleration, deformation, force, torque, and belt-load solutions allow engineers to capture crash events across the full occupant protection environment.
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FAQs
1. What are crash test sensors used for?
They are used to measure acceleration, force, torque, deformation, and related loads during highly dynamic crash and restraint tests.
2. Where are these sensors installed?
They are installed in crash dummies, vehicles, seat belt systems, load cell walls, and other passive safety test structures.
3. What is in-dummy DTI?
It refers to integrated digital measurement technology inside crash dummies so signals can be captured with a cleaner and more robust measuring chain.
4. Are these sensors used for standards-based testing?
Yes. Kistler’s category explicitly references use cases aligned with organizations such as NHTSA, IIHS, and Euro NCAP.
5. Do crash test sensors include more than accelerometers?
Yes. The category includes acceleration, force, torque, deformation, and load-cell products for many different crash-test needs.
6. Can ATS help choose the right crash sensor set?
Yes. ATS can help map the right sensor family to your dummy type, crash structure, vehicle setup, and passive safety objective.
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Select the Right Crash Test Sensor Package for Your Safety Program
Whether your program needs accelerometers, dummy load cells, deformation sensors, or structural crash measurement hardware, ATS Group can help align the right sensor package to your passive safety workflow.