FEA of helmet-head injury protection based on motorcycle accident reconstruction
Paper in proceeding, 2013

Head impact usually causes fatalities of riders in motorcycle accidents. The use of helmet can protect head effectively and the study of head injury mechanism is useful in safety helmet design and head injury risk decrease. A real motorcycle-passenger car accident was reconstructed in order to simulate and analyze the motion, impact velocity, impact angle in the collision. In order to study the dynamic response of helmeted head during the accident impact processing, an effective helmet model was constructed and validated. Coupling with the finite element model of human head, the injury mechanism of head and relevant parameters of biomechanics were studied and the protection ability of helmet was analyzed. It was found that the presence of helmet reduces the probility of head injury.

Absorption test

Accident reconstruction

Finite element helmet

Head injury

Author

Jiguang Chen

Hunan University

Jikuang Yang

Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Vehicle Safety

Xuenong Zhou

Hunan Police Academy

Chao Zhang

Xiaoping Yu

Traffic Police Branch of Changsha

Weiqiang Li

Police Hospital of Changsha

Meichuan Wang

Fourth Hospital of Changsha

Proceedings - 2013 5th Conference on Measuring Technology and Mechatronics Automation, ICMTMA 2013

570-573
9780769549323 (ISBN)

Areas of Advance

Transport

Subject Categories

Reliability and Maintenance

DOI

10.1109/ICMTMA.2013.142

ISBN

9780769549323

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Created

10/6/2017