Restraint system and vehicle design rely heavily on the use of Anthropomorphic Test Devices and mathematical models of ATD’s to provide information about human occupant response in impact conditions. Recent advances in ATD’s take years to get through the prototyping and evaluation stages before they can be widely used. The recent advances in ATD development will not benefit the testing of many vehicles for quite some time.
The development of mathematical models of new ATD’s that are not yet available for widespread use, as well as mathematical models of humans can provide more information about human occupant responses to engineers. This study develops a method to utilize these mathematical models in combination with a highly detailed vehicle model to gain more understanding of how human occupants will behave in a frontal impact.
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