HUMAN TOLERANCE TO IMPACT CONDITIONS AS RELATED TO MOTOR VEHICLE DESIGN

Human Biomechanics and Simulations Standards Committee

The Human Biomechanics and Simulation Standards Committee is part of the Occupant Protection and Biomechanics Steering Committee that reports to the Motor Vehicle Council (MVC). The Standards Committee is responsible for developing and maintaining SAE Standards, Recommended Practices, and Information Reports related to assessing vehicle occupant and pedestrian protection. The Committee's goal is to provide an unbiased assessment of these documents as well as provide input to associate International Organization of Standardization (ISO) activities. Committee experts with broad backgrounds in the field represent a variety of viewpoints. The following committees and task forces have been developed under the committee's scope: Hybrid III Dummy Family Task Force, Pedestrian Dummy Task Force, DAPRR Task Force, Dummy Testing and Equipment Committee. Participants in the SAE Human Biomechanics and Simulation Standards Committee include OEMs, suppliers, consulting firms, government, and other interested parties. The HBSS shall pursue anthropometrically, biomechanically sound definitions of mechanical and analytical surrogates of humans for use in research, design, development, and certification studies involving occupant/vehicle and vehicle/pedestrian impact injury. Likewise, it shall pursue pertinent, biomechanically sound definitions of impact injury criteria to enable, in conjunction with the use of surrogates, predictions of the degrees of human injuries to be expected in a given impact environment. (This objective was developed at the 1st HBSS meeting January 14, 1976)