A Study on Protecting of the Far Side Occupants Based on Road Traffic Accident Reconstruction

Author

Guo, Qixin ; Jikuang Yang ; Zhang, Bin

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Adv. & Manuf. for Vehicle Body, Hunan Univ., Changsha, China

fYear

2012

fDate

July 31 2012-Aug. 2 2012

Firstpage

140

Lastpage

143

Abstract

A study on injuries of far side passenger in vehicle side impact was carried out by using a real road accident. Firstly, the trace of the accident car was reproduced using PC-Crash code. The impact velocity of the passenger car calculated from PC-Crash was used as the input data for MADYMO modeling of occupant kinematics. Then the dynamic responses of the occupants were analyzed using the calculated injury parameters of the driver. Furthermore, LS-DYNA code was used to simulate the impact between the head of the driver and the left shoulder of the occupant. In the end, a MADYMO model with an airbag between driver and occupant was developed, and the protective efficiency of the airbag was showed by comparing the models with and without airbag.

Keywords

automobiles; impact (mechanical); mechanical engineering computing; protection; road accidents; road traffic; vehicle dynamics; LS-DYNA code; MADYMO model; PC-Crash code; accident car trace; airbag protective efficiency; driver head; driver injury parameters; far side occupant protection; far side passenger injuries; impact velocity; occupant kinematics; occupant left shoulder; occupants dynamic responses; road traffic accident reconstruction; vehicle side impact; Accidents; Atmospheric modeling; Brain modeling; Injuries; Roads; Safety; Vehicles; accident reconstruction; airbag; far side passenger; side impace;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Manufacturing and Automation (ICDMA), 2012 Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

GuiLin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2217-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDMA.2012.34

Filename

6298274