TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - A response surface approach to front-car optimisation for minimising pedestrian head injury levels
JO  - International journal of crashworthiness
A1  - Zhao, Y.
A1  - Rosala, G. F.
A1  - Campean, I. f.
A1  - Day, A. J.
SP  - 143
EP  - 150
VL  - 15
IS  - 2
N2  - The paper presents a response surface approach to modelling car-pedestrian impact events and a multi-objective optimisation technique aimed at finding a front-end car geometry that minimises the injury outcome. The results of the study, involving a parametric front car model and four anthropometric-group pedestrian models, demonstrate the ability of RBF-based response surface models to adequately describe car-pedestrian impacts despite the high nonlinearity of such events. Moreover, the response surface models have been successfully used to find front-end car geometry that minimises injury levels across all four anthropometric groups.<p /> 
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SN  - 1358-8265
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13588260903094392
ID  - ref1
ER  -