Seat testing to investigate the female neck injury risk – preliminary results using a new female dummy prototype
Paper in proceeding, 2012
Dynamic performance tests are conducted to assess the neck injury risk. To date seats are assessed based on sled tests mostly using a BioRID which is based on the 50%ile male anthropometry. Since females sustain whiplash associated disorders (WAD) more often than males, their injury risk needs to be addressed as well.
SLED TESTS
FINITE ELEMENT MODEL
FEMALE DUMMY
REAR IMPACTS
WHIPLASH
Author
Kai-Uwe Schmitt
Toni Weber
Mats Svensson
Chalmers, SAFER - Vehicle and Traffic Safety Centre
Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Vehicle Safety
Johan Davidsson
Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Vehicle Safety
Chalmers, SAFER - Vehicle and Traffic Safety Centre
Anna K Carlsson
Chalmers, SAFER - Vehicle and Traffic Safety Centre
Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Vehicle Safety
M. Björklund
Lotta Jakobsson
Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Vehicle Safety
Chalmers, SAFER - Vehicle and Traffic Safety Centre
Ernst Tomasch
Astrid Linder
Proceedings: IRCOBI Conference; September 12–14; Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Areas of Advance
Transport
Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)
Other Engineering and Technologies
Vehicle Engineering
Roots
Basic sciences
Driving Forces
Innovation and entrepreneurship