The predictive capacity of the MADYMO ellipsoid pedestrian model for pedestrian ground contact kinematics and injury evaluation

Pedestrian injuries occur in both the primary vehicle contact and subsequent ground contact. Currently, no countermeasures have been implemented pedestrian model has validated for contact, though this is needed developing future injury countermeasures. In paper, we assess predictive capacity of MADYMO ellipsoid reconstructing six recent cadaver experiments. Whole-body kinematics as well related aHIC (approximate HIC) BrIC scores were evaluated. Reasonable results generally achieved timings principal collision events, overall mechanisms. However, resulting head predictions based on HIC showed limited to replicate individual Sensitivity studies substantial influences vehicle-pedestrian characteristic certain initial joint angles predictions. Further work improve