Samenvatting
Different tolerance criteria for the femur based on different test methodologies are proposed before. In the different research programmes, the human subject was never seated in a vehicle, in a frontal impact situation, and the experiments were not, therefore, sufficiently representative. To determine a criterion which can be practically applied in conditions approaching reality, tests are conducted in an "automobile environment" with the occupant subjected to a series of loads comparable to those a real life victim would experience.