Citation

Sankarasubramanian H, Chawla A, Mukherjee S, Goehlich D. Int. J. Crashworthiness 2016; 21(1): 63-78.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/13588265.2015.1116425

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Ensuring the safety of pedestrians in a crash with automobiles remains a vehicle design challenge. Multibody simulations were developed in MADYMO to simulate a crash of a parametrised vehicle front model (14 parameters) against three different Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) pedestrian models (50th %le M, 5th %le F, 6 Y.O. Child). Threat to a targeted pedestrian population was measured using a weighted injury cost (WIC) measure. A pedestrian friendly vehicle profile was obtained using genetic algorithm-based global optimisation to minimise WIC with geometric constraints on vehicle profile. With known limitations, at least one pedestrian-friendly vehicle shape not resembling any existing vehicle profile was found.

Language: en