Crash injury reduction via lap-shoulder belt use has been well documented. Like any other interior car component, lap-shoulder belts may be related to injury in certain crashes. Relatively unknown is the fact that cervical fractures or fracture-dislocations to restrained front seat occupants occur where no head contact was evidenced by both medical records and car inspection. A review of the av...

One in every five occupants thrown from a car receives fatal injuries. A motorist who uses a safety belt, in all probability, will not be thrown from the car during a crash. The rate of fatal injury for ejected occupants was found to be 40 times the rate for occupants not thrown from their cars, as determined from national accident sampling data. These data refute the popular notion that "being...

Consumer crash test programs provide comparative information on the crashworthiness of new vehicles which, in turn, should predict the performance of the same vehicles in real-world crashes. However, the detail and quality of available information from tests and real-world crashes differ widely, so identifying meaningful relationships between crash test results and real-world crashworthiness ca...

OBJECTIVE To study the epidemiology and causes of death in fatal car crashes on Swedish roads in which the victim's vehicle caught fire. METHODS The data set is from the Swedish Transport Administrations in-depth studies of fatal crashes 1998-2008. Autopsies from all cases provided data on injuries, toxicological analyses, and cause of death. RESULTS In total, 181 people died in 133 burning...

Crash-dynamics research has always concentrated significantly in the safety, survivability of passengers a car crash. To identify capability energy absorption crash box, thin-walled structure will be modeled and simulated by ABAQUS software. Investigate influence material, cross-sectional, thickness factors on capacity tube, using MCDM – Multi-Criteria Decision-Making to get best option testing...

This article reviews approaches to mathematical modeling of a vehicle crash. The growing focus on and occupant safety in car crashes has triggered the need study crashworthiness initial stages development. major motivation for this work is support design during product development process.The divided into two parts; first one overviews existing models used solve engineering problems. second par...

An aspect-oriented modeling approach to the Car Crash Crisis Management System (CCCMS) using the High-Level Aspect Language (HiLA) is described. HiLA is a language for expressing aspects for UML static structures and UML state machines. In particular, HiLA supports both a static graph transformational and a dynamic approach of applying aspects. Furthermore, it facilitates methodologically turni...

In the virtual product development, crash analyses are an important part for the design of the car body. The minimization of weight and some times competing requirements from several load cases have to be adjusted as optimal as possible. Consequently, no high safety distances can be kept while maintaining all requirements. Therefore, the assurance of robustness of the optimized design against u...

Advanced Human Body FE models are now being used extensively in the development process of vehicle safety systems. This tool on one hand aids in the optimization of restraint systems and on the other hand also provides a detailed analysis of injury mechanisms when used within accident reconstruction. A good documented (injury patterns & physical loading conditions) real world crash and its reco...