Biomechanics of side impact: Injury criteria, aging occupants, and airbag technology

Side Airbag Out-of-position Deployments: Thoracic Injury to Stationary and Dynamic Occupants

Injury risk from out-of-position (OOP) side airbag deployment has been assessed using stationary occupant test protocols. However, stationary conditions may not always represent real world OOP scenarios. Therefore, the objective of the present study was to evaluate the effects of OOP torso side airbag deployment, comparing a stationary test protocol with dynamic conditions. A combination of par...

Re: Association between side-impact airbag deployment and risk of injury.

The study compared injury outcome by match pairing sided airbag (SAB) deployment versus no SAB deployment vehicles using 2000 to 2009 CIREN (Crash Injury Research Engineering Network) and NASSCDS (National Automotive Sampling SystemYCrashworthiness Data System) database. The study then concluded that head SAB was protective, whereas thoracic SAB was not. The authors suggested that this could be...

Airbag injury during low impact collision.

Side Impact Neck Injury Criteria and Tolerances in Aerospace Safety

The objective of this research is to develop neck injury criteria and injury tolerance levels to be used as a basis for a performance standard for the certification of side facing aircraft seats. This paper presents the results of the first part of this study. A literature review was performed on the neck injuries, kinematics and injury mechanisms in lateral loading and existing injury criteria...

Minimizing the injury potential of deploying airbag interactions with car occupants.

Minimizing the injury potential of the interactions between deploying airbags and car occupants is the major issue with the design of airbag systems. This concern was identified in 1964 by Carl Clark when he presented the results of human volunteer and dummy testing of the "Airstop" system that was being developed for aircraft. The following is a chronological summary of the actions taken by th...