TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2023//
TI  - Studying the effect of vehicle front-end design variables on different head injury forms
JO  - International journal of vehicle safety
A1  - Huang, Hongwu
A1  - Wang, Bingyu
A1  - Pan, Di
A1  - Han, Yong
A1  - Wu, He
SP  - 46
EP  - 63
VL  - 13
IS  - 1
N2  - The correlation between vehicle front profiles and multiple head injury forms in accidents remains unclear. Three hundred simulations were conducted by considering five vehicle front-end variables: bumper centre height, Bonnet Length (BL), Bonnet Leading Edge Height (BLEH), Bonnet Angle (BA) and Windscreen Angle (WA). HIC15, angular acceleration, maximum principal strain and cumulative strain damage measure were calculated to evaluate Skull Fracture (SF), Sub-Dural Hematoma (SDH) and Diffuse Axonal Injury (DAI). Prediction models were developed and evaluated by using back-propagation neural network algorithms. <br><br>RESULTS reveal that BLEH exhibits the highest overall significance of 0.41, which was the most sensitive parameter affecting all three injury forms. SF was significantly correlated with BL, with an importance value of 0.12. Changing WA and BA demonstrates significant effects on SDH and DAI, with significance values of 0.29 and 0.33, respectively. The results can give a comprehensive reference for the design and optimisation of vehicle front profiles.     Keywords: head injury forms; vehicle-to-pedestrian collision; vehicle front-end design variable; head injury prediction model.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1479-3105
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJVS.2023.137699
ID  - ref1
ER  -