The issue of car-to-pedestrian impact safety has received more and more attention. For leg protection, a legform impactor with 2 degrees-of-freedom (DOF) proposed by EEVC is required in current regulations for injury assessment, and the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association Inc. (JAMA) and Japan Automobile Research Institute (JARI) have developed a more biofidelic pedestrian legform since 2000. However, studies show that those existing legforms may not be able to cover some car-to-pedestrian impact situations. This paper documents the development of a new pedestrian legform with 4 DOFs at the knee-joint. It can better represent the kinematics characteristics of human knee-joint, especially under loading conditions in omni-direction impacts. The design challenge is to solve the packaging problem, including design of the knee-joint mechanisms and layout of all the sensors in a limited space of the legform. Furthermore, reusable elements are used to achieve the joint stiffness requirements instead of destructive elements used in the EEVC 2-DOF legform. A prototype of the 4-DOF legform has been manufactured based on the design. The preliminary impact tests against bumper systems are also introduced in this paper.


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    Titel :

    Development of a Legform Impactor with 4-DOF Knee-Joint for Pedestrian Safety Assessment in Omni-Direction Impacts


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Beteiligte:
    Nie, Bingbing (Autor:in) / Huang, Jun (Autor:in) / Zeng, Long (Autor:in) / Zhou, Qing (Autor:in) / Xia, Yong (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    SAE 2011 World Congress & Exhibition ; 2011



    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2011-04-12




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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