Citation

Irwin AL, Crawford G, Gorman D, Wang S, Mertz HJ. Stapp Car Crash J. 2016; 60: 545-580.

Affiliation

General Motors Corporation (retired).

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Society of Automotive Engineers SAE)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

27871106

Abstract

Injury risk curves for SID-IIs thorax and abdomen rib deflections proposed for future NCAP side impact evaluations were developed from tests conducted with the SID-IIs FRG. Since the floating rib guide is known to reduce the magnitude of the peak rib deflections, injury risk curves developed from SID-IIs FRG data are not appropriate for use with SID-IIs build level D. PMHS injury data from three series of sled tests and one series of whole-body drop tests are paired with thoracic rib deflections from equivalent tests with SID-IIs build level D. Where possible, the rib deflections of SID-IIs build level D were scaled to adjust for differences in impact velocity between the PMHS and SID-IIs tests. Injury risk curves developed by the Mertz-Weber modified median rank method are presented and compared to risk curves developed by other parametric and non-parametric methods.

Language: en