Pedestrian impact Simulation - A Preliminary Study

831601

10/17/1983

Event
27th Stapp Car Crash Conference with IRCOBI and Child Injury and Restraint Conference with IRCOBI (1983)
Authors Abstract
Content
This paper describes some results obtained from analytical three-dimensional motion simulations of child and adult pedestrians impacted by an automobile. The baseline geometric and stiffness parameters used in this simulation correspond to a typical mid-size vehicle, the latter being measured by a dynamic impactor developed for this study. The effects of variation of several of the vehicle's front-end design parameters on the impact severities of a 50th-percentile male adult and a 6-year-old child pedestrian are studied using experimental design techniques. Both the main effects and the first-order interactions among the parameters are investigated, and it is shown that the counter-measure suggested for reducing adult pedestrians' injuries could aggravate child pedestrians' injuries.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/831601
Pages
15
Citation
Verma, M., and Repa, B., "Pedestrian impact Simulation - A Preliminary Study," SAE Technical Paper 831601, 1983, https://doi.org/10.4271/831601.
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Published
Oct 17, 1983
Product Code
831601
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English