TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - The effect of constrained hip-joint design on crash dummy responses
JO  - International journal of crashworthiness
A1  - Tang, Liang
A1  - Wang, Yuanbo
A1  - Zhou, Qing
SP  - 369
EP  - 376
VL  - 15
IS  - 4
N2  - The lower torso assembly of the Hybrid III (HIII) crash dummy adopts a one-piece vinyl skin/urethane foam design with a shape resembling the hip and thighs of a seated occupant. Although a ball-and-socket joint is used to connect the femur and the pelvis, the fixed-shape flesh design has essentially constrained the rotational freedom of the hip joint. A study of the effect of the constraint on the dummy response is presented. The result of this study could provide a direction for future improvement of the HIII dummy. A more human-body-like lower torso design is proposed and used to modify a non-linear finite-element HIII dummy model. The effect of the constraint is then evaluated using the modified model.<p /> 
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SN  - 1358-8265
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13588260903457755
ID  - ref1
ER  -