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Development of an Improved Airbag-Induced Thermal Skin Burn Model
Technical Paper
1999-01-1065
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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Abstract
The UMTRI Airbag Skin Burn Model has been improved through laboratory testing and the implementation of a more flexible heat transfer model. A new impinging jet module based on laboratory measurements of heat flux due to high-velocity gas jets has been added, along with an implicit finite-difference skin conduction module. The new model can be used with airbag gas dynamics simulation outputs, or with heat flux data measured in the laboratory, to predict the potential for thermal skin burn due to exposure to airbag exhaust gas.
Authors
- Matthew P. Reed - University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
- Jonathan D. Rupp - University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
- Steven J. Reed - University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
- Lawrence W. Schneider - University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
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Reed, M., Rupp, J., Reed, S., and Schneider, L., "Development of an Improved Airbag-Induced Thermal Skin Burn Model," SAE Technical Paper 1999-01-1065, 1999, https://doi.org/10.4271/1999-01-1065.Also In
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