TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2002//
TI  - The effect of the FMVSS201u free motion headform legislation on head injuries: a discussion based on numerical simulations
JO  - Proceedings of the International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Injury conference
A1  - Eichberger, A.
A1  - Steiner, J.
A1  - Breitenhuber, W.
A1  - Wernig, Johannes
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VL  - 30
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N2  - Until 2002 the complete car fleet to be sold on the US market has to fulfill FMVSS201u (Free Motion Headform) legislation (DOT, 2000). It includes a test procedure using a free flying headform (FMH) that impacts several specified points on the upper car interior with a speed up to 24kph. Injury criterion is HIC(d), a modified HIC with a tolerance limit of 1000. The purpose of this paper is to give an idea if this legislation has potential to reduce head injuries, based on Finite-Element calculations.    Results of this study suggest that FMVSS 201u should be updated in order to more precisely evaluate the risk for head/brain injury. We propose either to replace the test object by a spherical headform that has only one degree of freedom in the impacting direction or - in case of keeping the 201u test setup - to modify the injury criterion by a combination of HIC and rotational tolerance criteria. We are planning to extent this study with hardware testing.
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SN  - 2235-3151
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
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