A study of the pedestrian impact kinematics using finite element dummy models: The corridors and dimensional analysis scaling of upper-body trajectories

International Journal of Crashworthiness

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 469-478

  Untaroiu, Costin D ^a   Shin, Jaeho ^a   Ivarsson, Johan ^a   Crandall, Jeff R ^a   Subit, Damien ^a   Takahashi, Yukou ^b   Akiyama, Akihiko ^b   Kikuchi, Yuuji ^b  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b HONDA R AND D CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Impact; Pedestrian dummy; Pedestrian kinematics; Scaling

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; CRASHWORTHINESS; EXPERIMENTS; KINEMATICS; MECHANICS; TRAJECTORIES;

DUMMY MODELS; IMPACT; PEDESTRIAN DUMMY; PEDESTRIAN KINEMATICS; SCALING;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 51449085358     PISSN: 13588265     EISSN: 17542111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13588260802055387     Document Type: Article

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