Citation

Tellier BL, Pormente S, Meyer F, Bourdet N, Willinger R, Renaudin F. Int. J. Crashworthiness 2018; 23(5): 475-485.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/13588265.2017.1345590

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The new Regulation 129 is a keystone in child safety as child restraint systems are now evaluated in side impact tests with Q-dummies. Research works have, nevertheless, shown that regulatory assessment criteria are not well correlated with head injuries. As a consequence, the present study aims to compare two child seat versions regarding biomechanical criteria associated to the anatomical head-neck system of the newborn. The main results show that the enhanced child seat leads to significative lower brain loading under regulatory test configuration.

Language: en

Keywords

anatomical head–neck system; biomechanical criteria; Child restraint system (CRS); newborn child; side impact, finite element model (FEM)