Citation

Muggenthaler H, von Merten K, Peldschus S, Holley S, Adamec J, Praxl N, Graw M. Forensic Sci. Int. 2008; 177(2-3): 184-191.

Affiliation

Institute for Legal Medicine, University Jena, Fürstengraben 23, 07743 Jena, Germany.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.forsciint.2007.12.005

PMID

18262372

Abstract

The development of numerical human models is a topic of current interdisciplinary research. In the field of automotive safety these models can be applied for the optimization of protection systems. In forensic research human models can be used for the investigation of injury mechanisms and for the prediction and reproduction of injury patterns. However, up to now human models have been validated on the basis of PMHS tests without considering the effects of muscle activity. This paper shows two experimental volunteer test set-ups for the generation of experimental validation data. In a pendulum set-up the influence of muscle activity on the human kinematics was investigated. A drop test set-up was developed for the analysis of the effects of muscle activity on impact response characteristics of muscle tissue. Experimental results, presented in this paper, can be used for the validation and optimization of active numerical human models.

Language: en