Spinal kinematics of restrained occupants in frontal impacts.

Author(s)
Shaw, G. Kent, R. Sieveka, E. & Crandall, J.
Year
Abstract

This paper analyzes acceleration measured at different locations on the spine of a post-mortem human surrogate (PMHS) subjected to restraint loading in a frontal impact. The study was performed to assess the use of acceleration measured at the first thoracic vertebra (T1) in the development of thoracic injury criteria for use with anthropomorphic test dummies. The study has an experimental component involving sled tests with a PMHS and with a Hybrid III 50th percentile male dummy, and a computational component involving the MADYMO human body model and the MADYMO dummy model. Mass-scaled PMHS T1 acceleration is found to reflect changes in test conditions (airbag only, belt with airbag, driver side and passenger side) differently than dummy chest center of gravity (cg) acceleration. PMHS T8/9 acceleration time history is found to reflect transient restraint loading better than T1 acceleration time history, but PMHS T8/9 maximum acceleration, even scaled for differences in PMHS and dummy mass, is found to be significantly greater than dummy chest cg acceleration for some test conditions. Spinal curvature and differences between human and dummy spinal flexibility are shown to be significant factors in the interpretation of PMHS-based acceleration measurements, particularly for use as a proxy for dummy chest cg acceleration. (A)

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C 21438 (In: C 21420) /84 /91 / ITRD E206532
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In: Proceedings of the 2001 International IRCOBI Conference On The Biomechanics Of Impact, Isle of Man (UK), October 10-12, 2001, p. 241-253, 15 ref.

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