Methods to mitigate injury to toddlers in near-side impact crashes

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1880-1892

  Kapoor, Tanya ^a   Altenhof, William ^a   Howard, Andrew ^b   Rasico, Jim ^c   Zhu, Fuchun ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c First Technology Safety Systems   (Canada)

Author keywords

Child safety; Flexible LATCH; Head and neck injuries; Numerical modeling; Rigid ISOFIX; Sled testing

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE SEATS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY ABSORPTION; EXPERIMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL METHODS; SAFETY TESTING; TESTING;

CHILD SAFETY; FLEXIBLE LATCH; HEAD AND NECK INJURIES; NUMERICAL MODELING; RIGID ISOFIX; SLED TESTING;

AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT;

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; NECK INJURY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; SAFETY; STANDARD; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BIOMECHANICS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; HUMANS; MANIKINS; NECK INJURIES; PROTECTIVE DEVICES; SAFETY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 54949155470     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2008.07.008     Document Type: Article

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