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| Alison
M. Busenga
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| ACCIDENT
RECONSTRUCTIONIST |
POSITION:
 | Research and
Consulting Engineer specializing in automotive collision analysis
and reconstruction. |
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| Research
activities include conducting automotive collision experiments,
instrumented vehicle performance tests and basic research in various
areas of automotive collision safety. |
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| Consulting
activities include the analysis and reconstruction of vehicle
rollover, single-vehicle, multiple-vehicle, auto-pedestrian, heavy
truck, bicycle, and motorcycle collisions.
These reconstruction activities include analysis of vehicle
dynamics, time-distance analysis, forced occupant motions during and
after a collision, and visibility analysis of the environmental
collision factors. Visibility
analysis includes low light and line of sight evaluations.
Methods utilized include computer simulations, mathematical
analysis, vehicle component testing, full-scale crash testing, still
photography and calibration. |
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EXPERIENCE:
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2001
to Present: Consulting
Engineer
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1987
to 2001:
Research Engineer: Collision
Research and Analysis, Inc.
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1982
to 1987: Research
Engineer: Severy, Inc.
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| Analyzed
and reconstructed over one thousand vehicular accidents.
Have participated in vehicle component testing including
automotive seat systems, door and latch systems, and roofs.
Have provided court and deposition testimony on the subjects
of general accident reconstruction, occupant kinematics, visibility
analysis and computer-aided analysis and simulations.
Analytical and demonstrative reconstruction activities
include preparation of graphic exhibits, scale model and computer
animations of reconstructed collisions. |
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| Co-author of
Society of Automotive Engineers publication: “An
Investigation into Vehicle Frontal Impact Stiffness, BEV and
Repeated Testing for Reconstruction”
(SAE 930899 also published in a book entitled “Accident
Reconstruction: Technology and Animation III” SP-946). |
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| Lectured at a
“Crash Testing Seminar” on the subject of Repeated Barrier
Testing before an audience of accident reconstructionists and
engineers. Participated
in the design and implementation of the “Crash Testing Seminar”
in August, 1992 in
San Bernardino
,
CA
. The seminar consisted of five
full-scale crash tests and related lecture topics.
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EDUCATION:
| Bachelor of
Science in Mechanical Engineering from
California
State
University
of
Long Beach
, 1982. |
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| Attended seminars
and TOPTEC’s in the fields of biomechanics of impact trauma, crash
reconstruction, vehicle rollovers, and airbag sensor design. |
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PROFESSIONAL
AFFILIATIONS
| Member of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) |
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| Member of the
Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM
) |
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| Member of Pi Tau
Sigma, National Mechanical Engineering Honor Society
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| Member of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME International)
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