Thoracic injury risk as a function of crash severity - Car-to-car side impact tests with worldSID compared to real-life crashes

Annals of Advances in Automotive Medicine - 54th Annual Scientific Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 159-168

  Sunnevang, Cecilia ^a   Rosen, Erik ^a   Boström, Ola ^a   Lechelt, Ulf ^b  

^a AUTOLIV RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^b VOLVO CAR CORPORATION   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAR SIDE; CRASH SEVERITY; CRASH TESTS; DELTA-V; FATAL INJURY; IMPACT SPEED; LATERAL IMPACT; OCCUPANT PROTECTIONS; PROTECTIVE EFFECTS; REAL LIFE DATA; REDUCING EFFECTS; SERIOUS INJURIES; SIDE AIRBAG; SIDE-IMPACT PROTECTION; TEST PROCEDURES; THORACIC INJURY;

MEDICINE;

TESTING;

AIRBAG; CAR; HUMAN; INJURY; THORACIC INJURIES; THORAX; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AIR BAGS; AUTOMOBILES; HUMANS; THORACIC INJURIES; THORAX; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 78650888722     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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