Abstract Head injuries are a major cause of fatalities in pedestrian-car accidents. The HIC (Head Injury Criterion) value, a measure of the fatality risk of a head injury, is calculated from the acceleration of the head’s center of gravity (henceforth, head center) resulting from a head impact. The pedestrian’s head does not impact the hood at a direction normal to the hood’s surface. The direction of motion of the head center may change extremely rapidly upon impact, and normal acceleration may also significantly contribute to the resultant acceleration of the head center. Therefore, pedestrian head protection studies should consider how normal acceleration contributes to the resultant acceleration of the head center. It is necessary to control the resultant acceleration of the head center to produce an optimal characteristic pulse. This study analyzes the composition and variations of the head’s acceleration in head-to-hood impacts, focusing on exactly how the normal and tangential components of the acceleration contribute to the resultant acceleration of the head center. This study also considers how structural design parameters affect each component of the resultant acceleration. Methods to control the resultant acceleration of the head center to produce an optimal characteristic pulse can be proposed based on the results of this study. The analytical models and the results of this study contribute to efforts to design vehicle hoods and pave the way for developing pedestrian protection technologies.


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    Title :

    Analyzing pedestrian head injury to design pedestrian-friendly hoods


    Contributors:
    Teng, T. -L. (author) / Ngo, V. -L. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2011-03-26


    Size :

    12 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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