The LS-DYNA nonlinear finite element analysis software package developed for structural analysis by the Livermore Software Technology Corporation (LSTC) is widely used by the automobile, aerospace, construction, military, manufacturing, and bioengineering industries. Fujitsu has been a partner with LSTC since 1996, supporting customers in Japan. A common application of LS-DYNA is car crash simu...

CONTEXT A car occupant could be killed if struck by another occupant who was catapulted forward, backward, or sideways in a crash. OBJECTIVE To estimate the association between death of a car occupant (the target) and restraint use by other occupants. DESIGN Matched-pair cohort study comparing the outcomes of 2 target occupants in the same passenger car that crashed. SETTING United States...

AIS 1 neck injuries has become the most common disabling injury in vehicle crashes. Research has shown that there are variations in rear impacts causing shortand long-term disability to the neck. Therefore impacts in where the duration of symptoms differ need to be separated in analyses. Crash severity is usually measured as change of velocity. The correlation between injury risk and impact sev...

The European Commission estimates that car crash-related costs in Europe are around 160 billion euros, approximately 2% of the Gross Domestic Product [1]. In several countries, car crashes are the first cause of death among subjects aged 15-30, with a direct heavy impact on the years of life lost; in young subjects car crashes also represent one of the major causes of disability [2]. Several dr...

If you've ever been involved in a crash you'll know just how traumatic, costly and inconvenient it can be for all involved. That's why at Thatcham we're determined to 'stop the crash' for the benefit of all road users and our experts believe that Autonomous Emergency Braking is the most important new technology we've seen to achieve these ambitious aims. Thatcham is a world renowned motor vehic...

AIMS To determine the incidence, severity, and clinical course of whiplash associated disorder (WAD) in children aged 4-16 years involved as passengers in car crashes. METHODS Prospective surveillance of all paediatric attendances to three English urban emergency departments after car crashes over an eight month period. An initial structured telephone interview at day 2 after the car crash wa...

CONTEXT The US Federal Aviation Administration is planning a new regulation requiring children younger than 2 years to ride in approved child-restraint seats on airplanes. OBJECTIVES To estimate the annual number of child air crash deaths that might be prevented by the proposed regulation, the threshold proportion of families switching from air to car travel above which the risks of the polic...

Increasing evidence suggests that neighborhood-based measures of socioeconomic status are correlated with traffic injury. The main objective of this study is to determine the differences in associations between predictive variables and injury crashes (i.e. including injury and fatal crashes). To this end, crash data, socio-demographic, socioeconomic characteristics and road network variables ar...

The Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) started in 1992, based on a crash test program introduced by the US government in the 1970s. In 1993 ANCAP became the first organisation to introduce the frontal offset crash test. Subsequently various “NCAPs” have started in Europe, Japan and Korea, as well as at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in the USA. In 1999 ANCAP (then Austr...

car accidents are documented as a growing public health problem in iran as well as other developing countries. generally growing number of population and vehicles are not accompanied by extending road construction programs. these could be result in high death, disability, and economic loss in such country compare to develop one. this mainly affected young person who are economically more active...