Effects of Airbag Firing Times on Pregnant Driver Safety in Full-Frontal Impacts

M. Moustafa, Volkan Esat, B. Serpil Acar

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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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2nd SimBio-M Annual International Conference, Marseille, France
Number of pages14
Publication statusPublished - 2011

Keywords

  • pregnant driver
  • computational model
  • airbag
  • firing timing
  • injury
  • full-frontal impact

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