Biomechanics Software and Reports
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These papers present
the prevelance and consequence of lower extremity injuries in frontal
crashes in the United States. Injury criteria, risk curves and recommended
injury assessment reference values for below knee injuries are also
provided for use with the Thor-Lx/HIIIr and Thor-FLx/HIIIr.
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Injury Criteria
for Side Impact Dummies
FMVSS No. 214 NPRM docket: NHTSA-2004-17694
submission
This report presents the development of injury criteria and associated
risk curves for use with the ES-2re and SID-IIsFRG side impact dummies.
Response
Corridors for the Human Surrogates in Lateral Impacts
Techniques
for Developing Child Dummy Protection Reference Values
An electronic version of the docket
submission #74-14 Notice 97 Item 069. This document summarizes the
various child anthropomorphic dummies in use around the world, and
makes recommendations for child dummy protection reference values
for the Hybrid III 12-month old, 3-year-old, and 6-year-old dummies.
Supplement:
Development of Injury Criteria for the Assessment of Advanced Automotive
Restraint Systems - II
(208 Final Rule Docket: NHTSA-00-7013)
In the SNPRM on advanced air bags,
NHTSA proposed a comprehensive set of injury criteria for evaluating
the potential for injury to the head, neck, chest and lower extremities
for the various dummy sizes, ranging from the 1-year-old child to
the 50th percentile male. This supplemental technical paper summarizes
the comments received related to injury criteria, provides the agency's
responses to the comments, and discusses the various performance
limits implemented in the final rule.
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Final Rule Nij (Version
10) Reference Implementation (EXE file)
*Self-extracting ZIP file:
This code is a reference implementation of the Final Rule
Nij (Version 10) injury criteria that was written for purposes
of clarity and no consideration has been made for speed. style,
or efficiency. The Standard C++ library was used to avoid any
confusion due to c-style memory allocation.
Program Input: Three ascii
x-y files, where each line of the input file contains two floating
point values, one for the time and one for the y value
*** All three files must have the
same number of points and the same time data ***
*** All input data must be unfiltered and will be filtered within
this program ***
Program Output: The Nij injury
criteria, the time of Peak injury.
Effects
of Head Restraint Position on Neck Injury In Rear Impact
This paper was presented at the
Traffic Safety and Auto Engineering Section of the Whiplash- Associated
Disorders World Congress 7-11 February 1999, Vancouver, Canada
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CIREN: the Nation's
Largest Learning Laboratory
a multi-center research program, conducting
in-depth studies of crashes, injuries, and treatments to improve processes
and outcomes. CIREN's mission: improve the prevention, treatment,
and rehabilitation of motor vehicle crash injuries to reduce deaths,
disabilities, as well as human and economic costs.
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THOR Advanced Crash
Test Dummy
(50th Percentile Adult Male, Alpha Version)
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THOR Alpha Cutaway Model
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Thor-Lx Advanced Lower Extremity
(Thor-Lx/ HIIIr)
50th Percentile Adult Male Hybrid III Retrofit Version
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Figure1. Thor-Lx/HIIIr
Assembly (w/o flesh) |
Figure2. Thor-Lx/HIIIr
Fully Assembled |
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Thor-FLx/ HIIIr (Thor-FLx Advanced
Lower Extremity-Fifth Percentile Adult Female Hybrid III Retrofit Version)
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Thor-FLx/ HIIIr Assembly
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Finite Element Modeling
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