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Abdominal biofidelity assessment of 5th percentile female ATD responses relative to recently developed belt and bar loading corridors.

Rakshit RamachandraJason StammenYun-Seok KangErin HutterLaura WatkinsKevin Moorhouse
Published in: Traffic injury prevention (2023)
Overall, the THOR-05F BRS scores were better than the HIII-05F BRS scores, which suggests improved biofidelity of the THOR-05F abdomen. The abdominal insert in the HIII-05F did not provide enough room for compression, leading to higher stiffness and occupant motion as observed in the rigid bar tests. Because of practical challenges in measuring abdomen deflection in a soft ATD abdomen component, use of APTS in THOR-05F provides the ability to measure the restraint loading to the abdomen and assess the risk of abdominal injury. With good BRS scores observed in this study for THOR-05F, pressure and other measurements included in the THOR-05F may be used to develop abdominal injury risk functions in the future.
Keyphrases
  • stress induced