The Influence of Occupant Grip on Ceiling Handrail and Injury Assessment in Collision

Abstract

With the rapid increase in the number of cars, to bring a variety of convenience to mankind, at the same time, a number of traffic safety problems also followed, which causing serious injuries and property losses, bring more pain and regret to the people. Therefore, to accurately assess the damage of the personnel in the collision safety accident is very useful to improve the safety performance and functionality of the vehicle. so, the crash dummy plays an important role in the research of crash safety. At present, in the study of human body injury in the collision with dummy, the influence of roof handrails grasping state was not considered. Therefore, the software of LS-PREPOST and Oasys PRIM-ER are used to build model of automobile cockpit and dummy with hand grip ability, the acceleration environment of frontal crash was simulated by adding B-pillar acceleration curve from real vehicle crash test. Comparing injuries of dummies in free sitting posture and holding the roof armrest in collision. he simulation results show that when the dummy was grasping the roof armrest, the peak value of head acceleration and HIC values were 6.1% and 30.2% lower than the dummy was sitting freely, the maximum value of shear force, tensile force and bending moment of the neck were reduced by 87.4%, 76.9% and 42.9% respectively, and the maximum value of chest compression was reduced by 16.9%. The results provide a reference for the research of passive safety in collision.