Citation

Nakahira Y, Iwamoto M. Trans. Soc. Automot. Eng. Jpn. 2015; 46(2): 491-496.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan)

DOI

10.11351/jsaeronbun.46.491

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

A human whole body FE model with muscular solid elements, which can represent 3-D geometry of each muscle and stiffness change of the muscle for inputted muscle activation, was applied to sedan-to-pedestrian impact analyses. After the model without muscle activations was validated against cadaver test data of sedan-to-pedestrian impacts, we investigated how muscle activations of a pedestrian in bracing conditions just before crashes would affect the kinematics and injuries of the pedestrian during sedan-to-pedestrian impacts.

Language: ja

Keywords

Anthropomorphic dummy; Injury prediction Pedestrian; Muscle activation; Safety