Injury measures obtained from an instrumented 50th percentile male Hybrid III dummy in the driver seat are used to determine the likelihood that an occupant would have sustained significant injury to various body regions. Twenty-eight different measures are recorded in each of the Institute’s frontal offset crash tests: •head acceleration (three directions from head’s centre of gravity) •axial force, anterior-posterior force, and anterior-posterior bending moment acting at the connection between the dummy’s head and neck •thoracic spine acceleration (three directions) •sternum compression •femur axial force (each leg) •tibia-femur displacement (each leg) •tibia transverse bending moment (upper and lower, each leg) •tibia axial force (each leg) •foot acceleration (two directions, each foot) The 28 measures are grouped into four body regions: head and neck, chest, left leg and foot, and right leg and foot. Four injury parameters are used to evaluate protection for the head and neck, three parameters for the chest, and six parameters for each leg and foot. (A)
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