TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Estimation of knee injury measures for a pedestrian dummy
JO  - Transactions of Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan
A1  - Takahashi, Yukou
A1  - Okamoto, Masayoshi
A1  - Akiyama, Akihiko
A1  - Kikuchi, Yuji
SP  - 1435
EP  - 1440
VL  - 40
IS  - 6
N2  - FE models for pedestrian dummy and human knee joints were subjected to 4-point bending simulations in valgus bending. Failure threshold for each ligament of the dummy was estimated from the correlation between the dummy and human models. The maximum tensile force for each ligament of the dummy obtained from full-scale impact simulations using a full-body dummy FE model and vehicle FE models with different front shapes was normalized by the threshold. The results were compared with the distribution of observed injuries from published full-scale car-pedestrian impact experiments using human subjects and similar cars to validate the estimated thresholds.<p />  <p>Language: ja</p>
LA  - ja
SN  - 0287-8321
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.11351/jsaeronbun.40.1435
ID  - ref1
ER  -