Citation

Trosseille XB. Proc. Int. Tech. Conf. Enhanced Safety Vehicles 1998; 1998: 1143-1146.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, In public domain, Publisher National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)

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Abstract

The new safety standards or car assessment programs for passive safety lead to the stiffening of car bodies. Consequently, the loading of occupants increases, generating a higher injury risk to the thorax. To avoid this increase in undeformed cars, more efficient restraining systems have to be developed. But the improvement of performances should not increase out-of-position (OOP) risks, in particular to the neck and thorax of adults and to children. This paper deals with the development of a new restraining system combining a belt with 4 kN force limiter and an airbag with pressure limitation. In order to have a biomechanical evaluation of real protection on human being, the OOP injury risk is studied by Post Mortem Human Subject (PMHS) experiments.