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© 2010 Andrew Rich
Using Microsoft Excel for Traffic Crash
Reconstruction (3-Day Class)
Ohio Traffic Accident Reconstruction Association
March 21 to 23, 2011
Instructor:
Andrew Rich, BSME, ACTAR. [email protected]
Course Requirements & Prerequisites
• All students should have completed reconstruction or technical
• Recommended textbook (not required): Fundamentals of Traffic
Crash Reconstruction by Daily, Shigemura & Daily
• All students must bring a scientific calculator
• All students must have access to a computer running Microsoft
Excel 2007 or 2010
Contact number for help (up to 11:00 p.m.) 201-410-4174
Tentative Schedule:
Day 1 (morning)
• Introduction to Excel PowerPoint
• Writing formulas in Excel
• Statistics primer for Excel
• Introduction to Uncertainty and Sensitivity
• Walk-through of the Excel GUI
• Basic Spreadsheets
Day 1 (afternoon)
• Basic spreadsheets continued
© 2010 Andrew Rich
• Spin Analysis lecture and spreadsheet design
• Finite Differences lecture and spreadsheet design
• Homework assigned: create a spreadsheet to solve a momentum
reconstruction to include finite differences sensitivity
analysis.
Day 2 (morning)
• Homework review
• Monte Carlo lecture and spreadsheet design
• CRASH3 Review
• Stiffness Calculator spreadsheet (Convert function)
• Crash3 Spreadsheet
Day 2 (afternoon)
• Dennis Wood’s pole equation
• The if() function
• Option Buttons/Groups
• User-defined functions
• PCM data lecture (no RDS)—Hosting agency may ask for substitution
• Spreadsheet design for PCM data—Hosting agency may ask for
substitution
• Homework assigned: Create a chart to show the sensitivity of the
CSF to uncertainties in the middle ordinate measurement.
Day 3 (morning)
• Homework review
• Creating dialog boxes
Day 3 (afternoon)
• Simultaneous equations lecture
• Solving simultaneous equations with Excel