After frontal impact and together with the developments of dummies (EUROSID, BIOSID), side impact has become one of the principal targets of the investigators in car safety. In this configuration pelvis is especially involved accounting for 14% of the injuries (4). The experimental studies on cadavers or dummies are expensive and need a lot of time to prepare and to analyse. On the other hand the increasing power of computer and softwares now allows simulation of impacts using more and more sophisticated models of the human body. In order to design a finite element model of the pelvis in side impact, a first stage consists in the construction and the evaluation of bony pelvis model in axial loading So, this study is two fold a model and an experiment. To achieve this model, static tests were necessary. They reach different targets. They first supply geometrical and mechanical characteristics of bony pelvis, then allow a static validation of the model. (A)
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