In 1996, a national objective was established to reduce the rate of fatal accidents in aviation. To assist in determining the best methods for improving aircraft crash survivability, a combined approach was used involving database research and the examination of case studies of transport aviation accidents. The results of the study include recommendations for maintaining occupiable space, enhan...

This paper discussed the concept of using three simple sensors to monitor the behavioural patterns of an office occupant. The goal of this study is to capture behaviour information of the occupant without the use of invasive sensors such as cameras that do not maintain a level of privacy when installed. Our initial analysis has shown that data mining can be applied to capture re-occurring behav...

Cohort Comfort Models (CCM) are introduced as a technique for creating personalized thermal prediction new building occupant without the need to collect large amounts of individual comfort-related data. This approach leverages historical data collected from sample population, who have some underlying preference similarity occupant. The method uses background information such physical and demogr...

In the literature frontal crashes typically have been classified as full, large overlap, or small overlap impacts (SOI) in accordance with the degree of frontal area involvement. These classifications implicitly refer to the degree of longitudinal structure engagement during impact. While full and large overlap impacts have received considerable attention, SOI has undergone limited analyses thr...

This thesis deals with the questions of government regulation of road traffic safety. It examines the policies of the United States federal government to mandate the installation of automatic occupant restraints in automobiles as a case study. The history of occupant restraint regulation is first reviewed, followed by an introduction of a framework to examine the appropriateness of possible cou...

A significant fraction of fatalities involving passengers in automobile accidents is due to severe Head Injury. Head impact safety which in turn is the occupant safety is a significant consideration particularly in the design of Passenger Vehicles. During the rollover of SUV the head comes in contact with the parts such as the B-Pillar so in order to evaluate the occupant safety during rollover...

This study investigates the relationship between occupant injury and a host of other factors, including traffic and weather conditions present at the time of crash, road design, vehicle type, and occupant characteristics. Crash and traffic-detector data from six Orange County freeways were used in an ordered probit model. Crash outcomes were classified for each occupant, as no injury, non-visib...

In this paper, concepts are investigated for tuning material properties and component configurations in order to design structures with unique dynamic characteristics for mitigating blast loads while maintaining or reducing weight. The Dynamic Response Index (DRI) is employed as an occupant injury metric for determining the effectiveness of the each blast mitigation configuration that is consid...

Current procedures for estimating occupant risk in real-world vehicle crashes do not account for the performance of the occupant restraints, such as seatbelts and airbags. This paper compares the ability of two restraint performance metrics, the ridedown efficiency and the restraint quotient, to predict occupant injury as measured by a crash test dummy. The responses of crash test dummies were ...

The purpose of this report is two-fold: first, to review in generic terms the views, publications and research related to building design and climate change, and second, to raise a number of questions and potential research avenues. This paper primarily addresses the roles of building design and its implications for occupant behaviour in the context of the environmental performance of buildings...