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Citation |
Perez-Rapela D, Forman JL, Huddleston SH, Crandall JR. Comput. Methods Biomech. Biomed. Eng. 2020; ePub(ePub): ePub. |
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(Copyright © 2020, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group) |
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unavailable |
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Abstract |
The use of standardized anthropomorphic test devices and test conditions prevent current vehicle development and safety assessments from capturing the breadth of variability inherent in real-world occupant responses. This study introduces a methodology that overcomes these limitations by enabling the assessment of occupant response while accounting for sources of human- and non-human-related variability. Although the methodology is generic in nature, this study explores the methodology in its application to human response in far-side motor vehicle crashes as an example. A total of 405 human body model simulations were conducted in a mid-sized sedan vehicle environment to iteratively train two neural networks to predict occupant head excursion and thoracic injury as a function of occupant anthropometry, impact direction and restraint configuration. The neural networks were utilized in Monte Carlo simulations to calculate the probability of head-to-intruding-door impacts and thoracic AIS 3+ as a function of the restraint configuration. This analysis indicated that the vehicle used in this study would lead to a range of 667 to 2,448 head-to-intruding-door impacts and a range of 3,041 to 3,857 cases of thoracic AIS 3+ in the real world, depending on the seatbelt load limiter. These real-world results were later successfully validated using United States field data. This far-side assessment illustrates how the methodology incorporates the human and non-human variability, generates response surfaces that characterize the effects of the variability, and ultimately permits vehicle design considerations and injury predictions appropriate for real-world field conditions. Language: en |
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Keywords |
far-side impacts; human body models; Monte Carlo analysis; Response surface; vehicle safety |