Research of front seat design parameters on rear seat passenger safety

Author

Ruhai Ge ; Zibo Lu ; Fei Zhao

Author_Institution

Sch. of Automobile & Traffic Eng., Jiangsu Univ., Zhenjiang, China

fYear

2013

fDate

15-18 July 2013

Firstpage

520

Lastpage

523

Abstract

To study the influence of front seat parameters on rear seat passenger´s safety when front crash happens, this paper uses MADYMO software to establish a rear seat passenger constraint model, which includes car bodies, safety belts and a 5% dummy for impact simulation. Using this model, the simulation values are close to the results of the vehicle impact test. The influence of design parameters including the front seat headrest and backrest parameters on passenger HIC, T3MS, femur force is analyzed by this model. The relationship between front seat parameters and passenger injury values is obtained, further the measure that reducing passenger injury values is proposed.

Keywords

accident prevention; automobiles; belts; ergonomics; impact testing; production engineering computing; road safety; vehicle dynamics; MADYMO software; T3MS; backrest parameters; car bodies; femur force; front crash happens; front seat design parameters; front seat headrest; impact simulation; passenger HIC; passenger injury value reduction; rear seat passenger constraint model; rear seat passenger safety; safety belts; simulation values; vehicle impact test; Acceleration; Belts; Injuries; Joints; Safety; Vehicle crash testing; Vehicles; backrest; front impact; headrest; rear seat passenger; simulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering (QR2MSE), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1014-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/QR2MSE.2013.6625637

Filename

6625637