To adequately address the research questions in Sub Projects 1 to 4, predictive tools are needed that effectively replicate the human response and risk at injury at various loading conditions. The focus of this Sub Project is on enhancement of the human biomechanics database and the development of hardware and software tools on that basis.
Specific research objectives are:
- Development of new injury criteria associated with the newest generation of crash dummies for head, thorax, abdomen & lower limb
- Development of new small female side Impact dummy providing the possibility to ensure protection to population categories not properly taken into account today
- Selection of new head injury criterion, based on most recent biomechanical data and up to date numerical models, showing good correlation with injury patterns
- Development of scaling methods to derive injury criteria for various population categories
The sub project is organized in 3 work areas dealing with collecting and analysing human response and injury data, the development and validation of physical test devices and the development of computer models of dummies and humans.
The partners include 5 industrial partners, 3 research institutes and
8 universities. The Sub Project is headed by Jean-Pierre Verriest from
INRETS in France.
To get more information on sub project 5 please contact Jean-Pierre Verriest directly.
For deliverables of SP 5 etc., see deliverables.