The biofidelity of the EUROSID neck
Technical Paper
1987-13-0021
Published
September 8, 1987
by
International Research Council on Biokinetics of Impact
in
Switzerland
Sector:
Language:
English
Abstract
This paper deals with the EUROSID neck performance in terms of
biofidelity in both lateral and frontal impact directions. The
human reference data base comprises the results from volunteer sled
tests conducted by the Naval Biodynamics Laboratory in New
Orleans.
The EUROSID neck evaluation, according to these data, was
performed on the basis of whole dummy sled tests -for lateral
direction- and pendulum tests- for frontal direction-. In earlier
APR publication it was shown that EUROSID neck responses in lateral
direction are rather satisfactory. This conclusion was however
based on the basis of the first formulation of neck requirements as
proposed by ISO/TC22/SC12/WG5. Recently, these requirements have
been completed. According to this new formulation, an evaluation of
EUROSID neck performance is proposed here.
In order to illustrate the neck behavior under frontal
solicitations a dozen frontal pendulum tests involving the EUROSID
head/neck assembly were carried out by the Vehicle Research and
Test Center. Results of one of the most severe pendulum test are
presented and compared to the corridors generated at TNO using a
mathematical simulation of human volunteer behavior.