The role of door orientation on occupant injury in a nearside impact: A CIREN, MADYMO modeling and experimental study

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 372-378

  Tencer, Allan F ^a,b,d   Kaufman, Robert ^c   Huber, Philippe ^a   Mock, Charles ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Seattle CIREN Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Chest Injury; Pelvis Injury; Side Impacts; Vehicle Mismatch

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; DATA BASE; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; MOTOR VEHICLE; ORGAN INJURY; PELVIS INJURY; RIB; RIB FRACTURE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 31644438898     PISSN: 10286586     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389580500256813     Document Type: Article

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