Citation

Liu W, Duan A, Li K, Qiu J, Fu L, Jia H, Yin Z. Sci. Prog. 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Institute for Traffic Medicine, Department 4th, Institute of Surgery Research, Daping Hospital, Army Medical University (Third Military Medical University), Chongqing, China.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Science Reviews: Blackwell Scientific Publications)

DOI

10.1177/0036850419892462

PMID

31868098

Abstract

There are a very limited number of reports studying on the dynamic response and injuries of pedestrian head in the scenarios with head hitting windshield. This study aims to investigate the significant factors that affect the dynamic response and injuries of pedestrian head through finite element-multi-body coupling simulations. Two finite element vehicle models and two multi-body pedestrian human models were used to build the coupling simulations. Orthogonal experimental design and analysis of variance were used for parameter combination and data analysis. This study demonstrated that the dynamic response of pedestrian head and HIC₁₅ were strongly associated with collision speed and pedestrian orientation. Vehicle type had a significant influence on the dynamic response of pedestrian head and HIC₁₅, while there was no significant relationship between the dynamic response of pedestrian head and HIC₁₅ and the size of pedestrian human models. Collision speed, pedestrian orientation, and vehicle type should be prioritized over the other collision parameters in the study of head injury mechanism and reconstruction of vehicle-pedestrian collisions in the scenarios with head hitting windshield.

Language: en

Keywords

HIC15; Vehicle–pedestrian collision; coupling simulation; dynamic response; parameter sensitivity