Samenvatting
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of bodyweight, height and ribcage area moment of inertia on human chest impact responses in frontal pendulum impacts. A series of parametric studies was conducted using a commercially available three-dimensional (3D) finite element (FE) model of the whole human body, Total Human Model for Safety (THUMS). It wasfound that the maximum chest compression ratio, the best predictor of thenumber of rib fractures, was correlated with the area moment of inertia of the ribcage. For the covering abstract see ITRD E134311.