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Design, Development and Testing of a Load-Sensing Crash Dummy Face
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This project covers one facet of a program to develop a mechanical model for characterizing the time history of local forces on the zygomatic, maxillary and mandible regions of the human face during a frontal collision. Two mechanical devices to measure the forces on crash dummies during testing were designed, constructed and tested. The devices employed cantilever beams equipped with strain gauges.
Both devices were subjected to a series of drop tests onto various materials. Time histories were compared to those obtained from cadaver experiments. While the data obtained from this testing appears to be similar to the cadaver data, further improvements and modifications will make the model much more useful.
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Moulton, J., Warner, C., and Mellander, H., "Design, Development and Testing of a Load-Sensing Crash Dummy Face," SAE Technical Paper 840397, 1984, https://doi.org/10.4271/840397.Also In
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