This paper presents an estimate of the probability of serious occupant injury in frontal crashes based on vehicle kinematics information. Occupant injury risk is developed by modeling the human as a point mass and computing the occupant impact velocity (OIV) using the flail space model. Event Data Recorder data provide vehicle kinematics information for real world crashes with known injury outc...

Zusammenfassung Es wird das Verletzungsschema eines Fahrers nach Frontalzusammenstoß mit Airbag-Auslösung bei nichtangelegtem Gurt dargestellt. Der Patient wies Erstuntersuchung nur geringe äußere Verletzungen auf. Im CT zeigte sich eine nichtdislozierte Densfraktur. späteren MRT waren sekundäre Dislokation der Fraktur Myelonkontusion und diskoligamentäre Zerreißungen C5–T1 zu erkennen. Nach op...

Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United Kingdom. Airbags drastically reduce both morbidity and mortality from crashes, but with the increased use of airbags there has been a corresponding increase in the number of injuries attributable to these devices. This review discusses the history and mechanism of action of airbags, along with the spectrum of inj...

Airbags are subject to strict quality control in order to ensure passengers safety. The quality of fabric and sewing thread influence the final product and therefore, sewing defects must be early and accurately detected, in order to remove the item from production. Airbag seams assembly can take various forms, using linear and circle primitives, with threads of different colors and length densi...

-This paper focuses on the eye injuries related to airbags during frontal crashes of motor vehicles. This investigation will address the deformation of the eye part during the impact. The objectives of this work are to observe the behaviour of the eye during the impact, and also try to analysis the simulated stresses and strains to clinically observed injuries. Two eye models were generated by ...

Penurunan kapal dengan metode airbag memiliki potensi risiko yang besar terhadap dampak pada kerusakan kapal. Hal tersebut dapat dibuktikan masih adanya kecelakaan penurunan airbag. Pada monohull (lambung tunggal), posisi dan tekanan angin sangat mempengaruhi saat peluncuran agar tetap stabil tidak mengalami kondisi kritis seperti tipping, dropping stern lift. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk men...

Thoracic responses between the Hybrid III model and the THUMS human body model were compared in three frontal impact severities for two belt (3-point and criss-cross), two belt load limiter (constant and degressive) and two airbag types (symmetric and non-symmetric). The thoracic responses were evaluated by measurements of chest deflections (mid-sternum and multi-point measured), chest excursio...

A cooperative research project with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) was conducted to evaluate the capability of a Tubular Thoracic Cushion (TTC) airbag concept to significantly reduce rib deflections for the SID-IIs dummy in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s (IIHS) side-impact barrier test. The concept of the TTC airbag was to efficiently distribute a major...