Evaluation of a diverse population of morphed human body models for prediction of vehicle occupant crash kinematics
Journal article, 2022
Morphing can be used to alter human body models (HBMs) to represent a diverse population of occupants in car crashes. The mid-sized male SAFER HBM v9 was parametrically morphed to match 22 Post Mortem Human Subjects, loaded in different configurations. Kinetics and kinematics were compared for the morphed and baseline HBMs. In frontal impacts, the morphed HBMs correlated closer with the kinematics of obese subjects, but lower to small females. In lateral impacts HBM responses were too stiff. This study outlines a necessary evaluation of all HBMs that should be morphed to represent the diverse population in vehicle safety evaluations.
human body model
obesity
Diversity
safety
morphing
females
Author
Karl-Johan Larsson
Chalmers, Mechanics and Maritime Sciences (M2), Vehicle Safety
Autoliv AB
Bengt Pipkorn
Chalmers, Mechanics and Maritime Sciences (M2), Vehicle Safety
Autoliv AB
Johan Iraeus
Chalmers, Mechanics and Maritime Sciences (M2), Vehicle Safety
Jason Forman
University of Virginia
Jingwen Hu
University of Michigan
Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering
1025-5842 (ISSN) 14768259 (eISSN)
Vol. 25 10 1125 -1155Passagerarsäkerhet i bil - till nästa nivå
VINNOVA (2020-02943), 2020-11-01 -- 2023-10-31.
Subject Categories
Mechanical Engineering
Other Medical and Health Sciences
Areas of Advance
Transport
DOI
10.1080/10255842.2021.2003790