Decreasing the death toll of pedestrians in traffic accidents is one of the most urgent tasks to be solved all over the world. This paper describes the prediction of pedestrian injuries for the TRL legform impactor us...Decreasing the death toll of pedestrians in traffic accidents is one of the most urgent tasks to be solved all over the world. This paper describes the prediction of pedestrian injuries for the TRL legform impactor using MATLAB. The TRL legform impactor consists of three parts: a femur, a tibia, and a ligament connecting them. The impactor was physically modelled with springs, dampers and two masses as a dynamic model. The impactor behaves in a translational and rotational motion during the collision with a vehicle. The behavior of the impactor during the crash event was captured by a high speed camera and is regarded as the four-degree-of-freedom system in terms of translational and rotational motions. Pedestrian injuries are evaluated by three physical quantities indexes: the acceleration of the tibia, both the displacement and the bending angle between the femur and the tibia. The physical model for the impactor was expressed mathematically by differential equations. In the case of modelling, the ligament connecting both the femur and the tibia in particular plays an important role. Shear forces were applied to the ligament in translational motions and the bending moments in rotational motion. Differential equations were expressed in the form of a state equation and an output equation by MATLAB. Numerical solutions were obtained by a block diagram with Simulink. As a result, it was found that the predicted injuries agree quite well with their experimented data in terms of acceleration, displacement, and the bending angle mentioned above.展开更多
Though the bumper of a vehicle plays a major role in protecting the vehicle body against damage in low speed impacts,many bumpers,particularly in large vehicles,are too stiff for pedestrian protection.In designing a b...Though the bumper of a vehicle plays a major role in protecting the vehicle body against damage in low speed impacts,many bumpers,particularly in large vehicles,are too stiff for pedestrian protection.In designing a bumper for an automobile,pedestrian protection is as important as bumper energy absorption in low speed collisions.To prevent lower extremity injuries in car-pedestrian collisions,it is important to determine the loadings that car front structures impart on the lower extremities and the mechanisms by which injury is caused by these loadings.The present work was focused on gaining more insight into the injury mechanisms leading to both ligament damage and bone fracture during bumper-pedestrian collisions.The European Enhanced Vehicle-safety Committee (EEVC) legform impactor model was introduced and validated against EEVC/WG17 criteria.The collision mechanism between a bumper and this legform impactor was investigated numerically using LS-DYNA software.To identify the effect of the bumper beam material on leg injuries,four analyses were performed on bumpers that had the same assembly but were made from different materials.展开更多
基于PCDS(Pedestrian Crash Data Study)数据库,分析了人车相撞事故中各种因素对人体下肢损伤程度、损伤形式的影响,对目前各国关于行人下肢损伤生物力学特性的相关文献进行了总结和分析,并且比较了目前现有的腿部仿形器以及相关的试验...基于PCDS(Pedestrian Crash Data Study)数据库,分析了人车相撞事故中各种因素对人体下肢损伤程度、损伤形式的影响,对目前各国关于行人下肢损伤生物力学特性的相关文献进行了总结和分析,并且比较了目前现有的腿部仿形器以及相关的试验方法,从而为开展行人下肢损伤的研究提供了依据。展开更多
文摘Decreasing the death toll of pedestrians in traffic accidents is one of the most urgent tasks to be solved all over the world. This paper describes the prediction of pedestrian injuries for the TRL legform impactor using MATLAB. The TRL legform impactor consists of three parts: a femur, a tibia, and a ligament connecting them. The impactor was physically modelled with springs, dampers and two masses as a dynamic model. The impactor behaves in a translational and rotational motion during the collision with a vehicle. The behavior of the impactor during the crash event was captured by a high speed camera and is regarded as the four-degree-of-freedom system in terms of translational and rotational motions. Pedestrian injuries are evaluated by three physical quantities indexes: the acceleration of the tibia, both the displacement and the bending angle between the femur and the tibia. The physical model for the impactor was expressed mathematically by differential equations. In the case of modelling, the ligament connecting both the femur and the tibia in particular plays an important role. Shear forces were applied to the ligament in translational motions and the bending moments in rotational motion. Differential equations were expressed in the form of a state equation and an output equation by MATLAB. Numerical solutions were obtained by a block diagram with Simulink. As a result, it was found that the predicted injuries agree quite well with their experimented data in terms of acceleration, displacement, and the bending angle mentioned above.
文摘Though the bumper of a vehicle plays a major role in protecting the vehicle body against damage in low speed impacts,many bumpers,particularly in large vehicles,are too stiff for pedestrian protection.In designing a bumper for an automobile,pedestrian protection is as important as bumper energy absorption in low speed collisions.To prevent lower extremity injuries in car-pedestrian collisions,it is important to determine the loadings that car front structures impart on the lower extremities and the mechanisms by which injury is caused by these loadings.The present work was focused on gaining more insight into the injury mechanisms leading to both ligament damage and bone fracture during bumper-pedestrian collisions.The European Enhanced Vehicle-safety Committee (EEVC) legform impactor model was introduced and validated against EEVC/WG17 criteria.The collision mechanism between a bumper and this legform impactor was investigated numerically using LS-DYNA software.To identify the effect of the bumper beam material on leg injuries,four analyses were performed on bumpers that had the same assembly but were made from different materials.
文摘基于PCDS(Pedestrian Crash Data Study)数据库,分析了人车相撞事故中各种因素对人体下肢损伤程度、损伤形式的影响,对目前各国关于行人下肢损伤生物力学特性的相关文献进行了总结和分析,并且比较了目前现有的腿部仿形器以及相关的试验方法,从而为开展行人下肢损伤的研究提供了依据。
