Citation

Okamoto Y, Akiyama A, Nagatomi K, Tsuruga T. Proc. Int. Tech. Conf. Enhanced Safety Vehicles 1995; 1995: 1253-1263.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, In public domain, Publisher National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)

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Abstract

This paper presents the result of a research on rigidity characteristics of the body which might help reduce head injuries, and on the specific structures designed to meet these requirements. The possible force-deformation (F-S) characteristics of the hood which makes the severity of head injuries no more than Head Injury Criterion (HIC) 1000 was first investigated. Then, candidate structures that might realize such F-S characteristics were studied using laboratory impact tests and computer simulations.