Samenvatting
The purpose of this paper is to show that although the studies that have been conducted to survey the damage to abdominal organs due to collision with the steering wheel, the seatbelt, and/or the armrest show that this area suffers injury 5% less than other areas of the human body, there still needs to be further testing and governmental regulation requirements for abdominal injury prevention. Relaxation tests as well as unconfined tests were done on porcine solid abdominal organs and showed that although the strain energy density increased, there still was no evidence of a strain rate effect.