Citation

Himmetoğlu S, Acar M, Bouazza-Marouf K, Taylor AJ. Proc. IRCOBI 2009; 37: 399-414.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury)

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Abstract

This paper presents the development of reusable whiplash mitigating car seats that can effectively manage the response of the seat-back to rear impact for a wide range of crash severities. For this purpose, computational multi-body models of a generic car seat and a biofidelic 50th percentile male human model for rear impact are developed. Three reactive car-seat design concepts are proposed whose effectiveness are demonstrated by simulating rear impacts at severities ranging from 4.5 to 30 kph. Among the proposed seat concepts, the one which employs a modification on the conventional seat-back structural design, provides the most optimum neck protection at all crash severities.