Aging roadside barriers present a real hazard. We evaluate how concrete deterioration, soil characteristics, and alternate concrete compositions affect barrier protection performance over time.

Our impact research — covering side impact, side pole impact, offset impact, animal impact, and school bus crash scenarios — has directly shaped manufacturers' adoption of integrated safety designs in passenger vehicles.

We study how friction affects occupant restraint performance, including the difference between dummy skin and human skin. That gap matters: sticky dummy skin can catch on airbags, changing test conditions and reducing how relevant the results are to real human outcomes.

Working with industry, we've developed advanced frame and tank design techniques that protect fuel tanks in fixed-object impacts up to 60 mph and vehicle-to-vehicle impacts up to 70 mph.

Legacy door latch testing didn't account for real-world 3D loading. Our research shows that 3D load testing — for both latches and door handle release mechanisms — is far more effective than older unidirectional approaches.

From passenger vehicles to heavy trucks and buses, we've advanced how rollover occupant protection is evaluated — demonstrating what restraint systems and structural components actually hold up under rollover conditions.