Abstract
Airbags are designed to supplement safety seat belt in automobiles and collectively they help decrease the severity of a vast amount of possible injuries during an impact. The objective of this research is to investigate the effects of airbag deployment time during full-frontal impacts and the interaction of the pregnant driver with the frontal driver airbag using a computational pregnant occupant model. The three dimensional computational model ‘Expecting’ has been developed at Loughborough University, which embodies a detailed multi-body representation of a fetus within a finite element uterus. Well-being of the fetus is investigated using ‘Expecting’ model. This research involves simulations of several crashes with varying impact severities for full-frontal collisions with different airbag firing times. Strains and displacements in the uterus are calculated to predict the injury risk due to abdominal loadings.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 2nd SimBio-M Annual International Conference, Marseille, France |
Number of pages | 14 |
Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Keywords
- pregnant driver
- computational model
- airbag
- firing timing
- injury
- full-frontal impact