TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1982//
TI  - Determination of knee-femur-pelvis tolerance from the simulation of car frontal impacts
JO  - Proceedings of the International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Injury conference
A1  - Brun-Cassan, F.
A1  - Leung, Y.c.
A1  - Tarriere, C.
A1  - Fayon, A.
A1  - Patel, Manish M.
A1  - Got, C.
A1  - Hureau, Jacques
SP  - 101
EP  - 115
VL  - 10
IS  - 
N2  - Different tolerance criteria for the femur based on different test methodologies have been proposed previously. In the different research programs, the human subject was never seated in a vehicle, in a frontal impact situation and the experiments were not, therefore, sufficiently representative. To determine a criterion which can be practically applied in conditions approaching reality, tests have been conducted in an "automobile environment" with the occupant subjected to a series of loads comparable to those a real-life victim would experience. An analysis of the data obtained and comparison with other results from tests conducted in different configurations indicate that the force required to fracture the femur is very much dependent upon test conditions, and in particular on the duration of load application. (TRRL)<p /> 
LA  - en
SN  - 2235-3151
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -