Influence of deployable hood systems on finite element modelled brain response for vulnerable road users

International Journal of Vehicle Safety

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-44

  Fredriksson, Rikard ^a,b   Zhang, Liying ^c   Böstrom, Ola ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b AUTOLIV RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Deployable hood; FE; Finite element; Full scale dummy test; Head injury; Mathematical model; Pedestrian; Pop up hood; Rotational angular acceleration; Vulnerable road user

Indexed keywords

IRON; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; ROADS AND STREETS;

BRAIN INJURY; DEPLOYABLE HOOD; HEAD INJURIES; PEDESTRIAN; POP-UP HOOD; ROAD USERS; SCALE DUMMIES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 67650591257     PISSN: 14793105     EISSN: 14793113     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJVS.2009.026972     Document Type: Article

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