Finite element model analysis and numerical simulations are more and more used in the field of automobile safety. The models of anthropomorphic dummies are already developed. The following work, which is carried out both by the Laboratory of Biomechanics LBM (ENSAM) and the Laboratory of Accidentology and Biomechanics LAB (Nanteere), consists in a geometrical study of the human pelvis. This analysis, based on the Reynolds' data,, is performed to determine significant parameters for each class of pelvis. A statistical study has been performed with Student and Snedecor tests, to analyse the means and the variances of the characters. These parameters, exclusively computed distances, could be used to distort a mesh with an interpolation technique (kriging). (A)
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