This page includes short communications developed for the 2018 Stapp Car Crash Conference, the premier forum for the presentation of research in impact biomechanics, human injury tolerance, and related fields, advancing the knowledge of land-vehicle crash injury protection.
Topics covered include:
- Automobile accidents, crash scenarios, vehicle dynamics, injury biomechanics
- Finite element models, simulation, human body models
- Head injury metric, injury biomechanics
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Effect of Contact Separation on the Abdominal Response to Impact of a Human Body Model Authors: Philippe Beillas—Univ. Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, IFSTTAR, UMR_T9406, LBMC, F69622; Fabien Berthet—Transpolis SAS, Lyon Saint-Exupéry Aéroport Abstract In the GHBMC Detailed Human Body Models, sliding anatomical relationships between abdominal organs are modelled using sliding surface-to-surface contacts. As such contacts may open (i.e. separate) unrealistically in tension, their in situ behavior was analyzed in various setups. Surface separation was observed in abdominal and thoracic areas. It was most…
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Next Steps for the IIHS Side Crashworthiness Evaluation Program Authors: Raul A. Arbelaez, Becky C. Mueller, Matthew L. Brumbelow, and Eric R. Teoh—Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) Abstract IIHS has been conducting side impact crash tests since 2003. To understand how the side crashworthiness program can be enhanced, an ongoing research effort is focused on understanding the correlation between IIHS ratings and driver death rate. In addition, the performance of good-rated late-model vehicles has been assessed in higher…
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Warrior Injury Assessment Manikin Oblique Vertical Testing Authors: Hollie A. Pietsch and David R. Weyland—US Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) Abstract The Warrior Injury Assessment Manikin (WIAMan) was developed to assess injury in Live Fire Test and Evaluation (LFTE) and laboratory development tests of vehicles and vehicle technologies subjected to underbody blast (UBB) loading. While UBB events impart primarily vertical loading, the occupant location in the vehicle relative to the blast can result…
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High-Speed Biplane X-Ray Head Impact Experiments in the Göttingen Minipig Authors: Elizabeth McNeil, Amy Hermundstad, Pamela VandeVord, and Warren Hardy—Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics, Virginia Tech Abstract Traumatic brain injury is a persistent problem in the United States. To develop a head injury metric that relates underlying damage found in vivo to impact kinematics, scaling from the minipig to a human is required. The methods and results presented here describe the high-speed biplane x-ray experiments that will be used…
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Development of Multiple Crash Events to Understand Occupant Behavior and Injury Based on Real-World Accidents Authors: Seok Ho Hong, Sung Soo Kim, Hyung Wook Park, Sung Hun Chang, and Jang Mook Lim—Hyundai-Motor Company; Brian William Storey, Jordan Robert Haynes, and Robert Michael Schnorenberg—MGA Research Corporation Abstract Approximately a quarter of automobile accidents in the United States involve multiple impacts, but no standard test methodologies exist for the evaluation of these types of events. In this study, four categories were used for the selection of multiple…
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Human Surrogate Finite Element Models Under Multi-Directional Loading: Applications of Aerospace Data for the Future of Automotive Environments Authors: James P. Gaewsky, Derek A. Jones, Xin Ye, Bharath Koya, Kyle P. McNamara, Mona Z. Saffarzadeh, F. Scott Gayzik, Ashley A. Weaver, and Joel D. Stitzel—Virginia Tech – Wake Forest Center for Injury Biomechanics Abstract Injury biomechanics for the automotive environment of the future may be influenced by biomechanical analyses from other fields, including the aerospace environment. This short communication studied the influence of loading direction on the head,…
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Comparative Responses of the PIPER 6YO Human Body Model and the Q6 ATD for Simulated Frontal and Lateral Impacts Authors: Shreyas Sarfare, Jalaj Maheshwari, and Aditya Belwadi—Center for Injury Research and Prevention, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Nhat Duong—Center for Injury Research and Prevention, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Drexel University, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems Abstract Adult and pediatric human body models have focused on developing accurate representation of the human body in terms of anthropometry and kinetics/kinematics in correlation with published PMHS (Post-Mortem…
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Using Human Body Models to Assess Knee Ligament Injury in Knee Hypertension Authors: Chin-Hsu Lin—General Motors Global Research & Development; Mitchell Hortin and Annette Irwin—General Motors Global Safety Center Abstract Shared autonomous vehicles open possibilities for novel seating configurations, enabling greater interior spaciousness by making the front row seats rear-facing or removing one row of seats altogether. Frontal crash simulations with a forward-facing Hybrid III mid-size male FEM demonstrated that the unrestrained legs can swing up freely until they stop at the…
Publisher: The Stapp Association
