Injury Risk Curves for Children and Adults in Frontal and Rear Collisions

973318

11/12/1997

Event
41st Stapp Car Crash Conference
Authors Abstract
Content
This paper describes the development of injury risk curves for measurements made with the CRABI and Hybrid III family of biofidelic child and adult dummies that are used to evaluate restraint systems in frontal and rear-end collision simulations. Injury tolerance data are normalized for size and strength considerations. These data are analyzed to give normalized injury risk curves for neck tension, neck extension moment, combined neck tension and extension moment, sternal compression, the rate of sternal compression, and the rate of abdominal compression for children and adults. Using these injury risk curves dummy response limits can be defined for prescribed injury risk levels. The injury risk levels associated with the various injury assessment reference values currently used with the CRABI and Hybrid III family of dummies are noted.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/973318
Pages
18
Citation
Mertz, H., Prasad, P., and Irwin, A., "Injury Risk Curves for Children and Adults in Frontal and Rear Collisions," SAE Technical Paper 973318, 1997, https://doi.org/10.4271/973318.
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Published
Nov 12, 1997
Product Code
973318
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English