Three years old child neck FE modelling under automotive accident conditions.

Author(s)
Meyer, F. Bourdet, N. Roth, R. & Willinger, R.
Year
Abstract

Despite of recent progresses in occupant safety, the protection of children is still not optimal. To offer a better understanding of child injury mechanisms, the present study proposes a human-like finite element (FE) model of a three-year-old child's neck. If model validation against scaled experiments involving adults is still under discussion it is today the only way to perform a validation of a child model. The developed neck FE model has been driven with dummy responses coming from experimental real world accident reconstruction using the Q3 dummy in the framework of the EU T-CHILD. A number of intra-cervical parameters have been computed and best correlation with the occurrence of injury was found to be the force transmitted to the odontoid. For the covering abstract see ITRD E141762.

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C 45991 (In: C 45971 CD-ROM) /84 / ITRD E141787
Source

In: Proceedings of the 2007 International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Impact, Maastricht (The Netherlands), September 19-21, 2007, Pp

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