Review article

The methodology of the road transport examination includes a technique of assessing the speed of vehicles during collision based on the deformations received by the vehicle. The coefficients, which are necessary for such calculations, have averaged values in the reference literature, but, in fact, the stiffness of the car body differs significantly in different sectors. The article presents a technique that allows assessing the stiffness features of local zones of the car and, basing on it, there is constructed a heat map chart of stiffness coefficients, which allows increasing the accuracy of calculations in automotive technical examinations.