Pedestrian head impact conditions depending on the vehicle front shape and its construction - Full model simulation

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 74-82

  Okamoto, Yutaka ^a   Sugimoto, Tomiji ^a   Enomoto, Koji ^a   Kikuchi, Junichi ^b  

^a HONDA R AND D CO LTD   (Japan)

^b PSG Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accident Data Analysis; EEVC Working Group 17 Report; Finite Element Model Simulation; Head Injury; Pedestrian; Sled Test

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CALCULATION; CAR; EUROPE; EVALUATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GEOMETRY; HEAD INJURY; PEDESTRIAN; SIMULATION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BODY HEIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTOR VEHICLES; POSTURE; WALKING;

EID: 0037339823     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389580309856     Document Type: Article

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