Collision Pulse In-Use Factors Dialog Box¶

It may be useful to study the sensitivity of the occupant motion to changes in the magnitude of the collision pulse. The Pulse Factors dialog (title: Collision Pulse In-use Factors: [vehicle name]) allows the user to quickly assign multipliers to each degree of freedom.

Each factor is entered as a multiplier (%/100) using a slider or its associated edit field. The allowed range is 0.0 to 2.0; the default value is 1.0 (no scaling).

Forward (%/100)¶

Multiplier applied to the forward component of the vehicle's linear acceleration.

Lateral (%/100)¶

Multiplier applied to the lateral component of the vehicle's linear acceleration.

Vertical (%/100)¶

Multiplier applied to the vertical component of the vehicle's linear acceleration.

Roll (%/100)¶

Multiplier applied to the angular acceleration about the vehicle's roll axis.

Pitch (%/100)¶

Multiplier applied to the angular acceleration about the vehicle's pitch axis.

Yaw (%/100)¶

Multiplier applied to the angular acceleration about the vehicle's yaw axis.

OK / Cancel¶

OK validates and assigns the factors; Cancel discards the changes. The factors are reset to 1.0 when New is pressed in the Collision Pulse dialog.

Source topic: ColPulFact.htm — updated from source code (HVEINV-64, Physics) 2026-07-05.

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