TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2005//
TI  - Deflection, acceleration, and force corridors for small females in side impacts
JO  - Traffic injury prevention
A1  - Yoganandan, Narayan A.
A1  - Pintar, Frank A.
SP  - 379
EP  - 386
VL  - 6
IS  - 4
N2  - Objective. This study was undertaken to develop biomechanical corridors applicable to the small-sized female in side impacts. Methods. Sled tests were conducted using post mortem human subjects at a velocity of 6.7 m/s. Three chestbands were used to compute deflection-time histories at the axilla, xyphoid process, and tenth rib levels. Triaxial accelerometers were fixed to the upper and lower spine and sacrum to record acceleration-time histories. Specimens contacted the load wall with varying initial conditions (rigid and padded; flat wall and offset) from which impact forces to the thoracic, abdominal, and pelvic regions were obtained using load cell data. Adopting signal processing and mass-based scaling methods, corridors were derived for forces, accelerations, and chest deflections at three levels for all initial conditions. Results. All time history corridors were expressed as mean plus/minus one standard deviation and provided in the article. Conclusions. Acceleration-, deflection-, and force-time corridors obtained for the chest and pelvic regions of the human body will assist in the assessment of anthropomorphic test devices used in crashworthiness evaluations.
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SN  - 1538-9588
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15389580500256888
ID  - ref1
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