Title :
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
fDate :
July 31 2012-Aug. 2 2012
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;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Manufacturing and Automation (ICDMA), 2012 Third International Conference on
Conference_Location :
GuiLin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2217-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICDMA.2012.34
