Injury analysis validation of a deformable vehicle

Venkatason, Kausalyah and Shasthri, Sevaguru and Abdullah, Kassim Abdulrahman and Idres, Moumen and Shah, Qasim Hussain and Wong, Sha Voon (2013) Injury analysis validation of a deformable vehicle. Applied Mechanics and Materials, 465/66. pp. 1334-1338. ISSN 1660-9336

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Abstract

In the event of an impact with an automobile, pedestrians suffer multiple impacts with the bumper, hood and the windscreen. The characteristics of a vehicle’s front end and structural stiffness have a significant influence on the kinematics and injury risk of the pedestrian’s body regions, in a vehicle-to-pedestrian collision. In this present study, the injury risk of the pedestrian is investigated in an impact with a deformable vehicle front end model for the purpose of validating the developed model. A simplified vehicle front end model consisting of a multi body windscreen and a finite element cowl, hood and bumper is developed. The MADYMO human pedestrian multi body dummy model is impacted by the vehicle front end model at the speed of 40 km/h. The injury to the various body segments namely the head, neck, sternum, lumbar, femur and tibia is obtained. The simulation values are compared to the experimental values for verification of the vehicle front end model.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Additional Information:	4628/40902
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Injury Analysis, Deformable Vehicle Front End Model, Pedestrian Impact, Human Dummy Model, Validation
Subjects:	T Technology > TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics > TL1 Motor vehicles
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Engineering > Department of Mechanical Engineering
Depositing User:	YANTI IDAYA ASPURA MOHD KHALID
Date Deposited:	28 Jan 2015 08:52
Last Modified:	12 Jul 2015 08:06
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/40902

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