Lateral Injury Criteria for the 6-year-old Pedestrian - Part II: Criteria for the Upper and Lower Extremities

2004-01-1755

03/08/2004

Event
SAE 2004 World Congress & Exhibition
Authors Abstract
Content
Pediatric pedestrians are frequently involved in Pedestrian versus Motor Vehicle Collisions (PMVCs). While in recent years, the automotive industry has worked towards making cars less aggressive to pedestrians, the efforts have mainly focused on adult pedestrian safety. When they have included considerations for children, only head injuries have been evaluated. The development of automotive countermeasures that provide protection for both adult and pediatric pedestrians requires access to injury criteria for the entire body that specifically account for both the age-dependent tissue properties and the pedestrian's size. The objective of the present study is to derive lateral injury criteria for the upper and lower extremities that can be used in finite element and multi-body simulations of PMVCs involving the 6-year-old pedestrian (corresponding injury criteria for the head, neck, thorax, abdomen and pelvis are derived in part I of this study). The methods used for deriving these injury criteria include scaling of published results from experimental testing of adult and pediatric cadaveric materials and scaling of published adult injury criteria.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2004-01-1755
Pages
15
Citation
Johan Ivarsson, B., Crandall, J., Longhitano, D., and Okamoto, M., "Lateral Injury Criteria for the 6-year-old Pedestrian - Part II: Criteria for the Upper and Lower Extremities," SAE Technical Paper 2004-01-1755, 2004, https://doi.org/10.4271/2004-01-1755.
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Published
Mar 8, 2004
Product Code
2004-01-1755
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English