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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Frontal Crash"”.
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Influence of Advanced Airbags on Injury Risk During Frontal Crashes
… use rate of over 85% U.S. drivers involved in crashes continue to be at risk of serious thoracic injury. One hypothesis is that this risk may be due to the lack of airbag deployment or the airbag \'bottoming-out\' in some cases, causing drivers to make contact with the steering. The objective …
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DEVELOPMENT OF SIMILARITY SCORING TECHNIQUES FOR MOTOR VEHICLE CRASH COMPARISONS
Motor vehicle crashes result in thousands of deaths and millions of injuries each year in the United States (US). To help prevent these injuries and deaths, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) conduct crash tests, which …
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Predicting Occupant Injury with Vehicle-Based Injury Criteria in Roadside Crashes
… typically used to assess occupant injury risk in crashes involving roadside hardware such as guardrail. These metrics attempt to derive the risk of injury based solely on the response of the vehicle during a collision event. The primary purpose of this research effort was to determine if …
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The accuracy of energy-based crash reconstruction techniques using event data recorder measurements
… General Motors, Ford, and Toyota in laboratory crash tests was examined across a wide spectrum of impact conditions. This.study evaluated the performance of EDRs by comparison with the laboratory-grade accelerometers mounted onboard test vehicles subjected to staged crash tests. The study …
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Protection of Rear Seat Occupants Using Finite Element Analysis
The majority of car crash deaths occur in the front seats because the majority of occupants sit in the front seats. Traditionally, the rear seats were safer than the front seats because a front seated occupant would be closer to rigid structures such as the steering wheel, and they would be closer …
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A Data Mining Methodology for Vehicle Crashworthiness Design
… theory for decision-making in the development of crashworthy vehicles. The new data mining methodology allows the exploration of a large crash simulation dataset to discover the underlying relationships among vehicle crash responses and design variables at multiple levels and to derive design …
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Applications of Event Data Recorder Derived Crash Severity Metrics to Injury Prevention
… been more than 35,000 fatalities annually due to crashes on United States roads [1], [2]. Typically, road departure crashes account for less than 10% of all annual crash occupants yet comprise nearly one third of all crash fatalities in the US [3]. In the year 2020, road departure crashes …
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Submarining and Abdominal Injury for Rear-Seated Mid-Size Males during Frontal Crashes
… make up only 19% of rear seat occupants in frontal crashes, they make up 48% of fatalities (Tatem and Gabler, 2019). The rate of rear-seat occupancy by adults is expected to increase due to the use of ride share services and the potential of autonomous vehicles. Minimal research has been …
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Investigating the Thoracic Biomechanical Responses of Rear Seated 50th Percentile Male Anthropomorphic Test Devices and Post Mortem Human Surrogates During Frontal Motor Vehicle Collisions
Frontal motor vehicle collisions (MVCs) account for the majority of injuries and fatalities in MVCs according to the Fatality Analysis Reporting Systems (FARS). One of the most commonly injured regions of the body during MVCs is the thorax. While there are fewer adult passengers riding in the rear …
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Computational Investigation of Factors Influencing Vehicle Passengers' Safety Performance in Automated Driving Systems (ADS)
… passenger safety, with a focus on pre-crash maneuvers, and rear seat safety in mid-sized male occupants. \\ \\Initially, the influence of pre-crash maneuvers, such as braking and combined braking-turning events, was evaluated using finite element simulations with human body models. …