A multi-body head-and-neck model for simulation of rear impact in cars

HİMMETOĞLU, SELÇUK; Acar, M.; Taylor, A.; Bouazza-Marouf, K.

doi:10.1243/09544070jauto467

A multi-body head-and-neck model for simulation of rear impact in cars

HİMMETOĞLU S., Acar M., Taylor A. J., Bouazza-Marouf K.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS PART D-JOURNAL OF AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERING, cilt.221, ss.527-541, 2007 (SCI-Expanded)

Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
Cilt numarası: 221
Basım Tarihi: 2007
Doi Numarası: 10.1243/09544070jauto467
Dergi Adı: PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS PART D-JOURNAL OF AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERING
Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
Sayfa Sayıları: ss.527-541
Hacettepe Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

This paper presents the development and validation of a 50th percentile male multi-body head-and-neck model, aimed primarily at analysing rear impact and the resulting whiplash injury effects. The objective is to design a computationally efficient model behaving like a human head and neck in the case of a rear impact. The volunteer sled tests performed by the Japanese Automobile Research Institute (JARI) have been used for the validation of the head-neck model for low-speed rear-impact analysis. The presented approach for the multi-body head-and-neck model is simple, effective, and capable of producing biofidelic responses. The results show that the model can represent with a high degree of accuracy the rear-impact response of a human.