Item Details

title

Driver Injury Metric and Risk Variability as a Function of Occupant Position in Real World Motor Vehicle Crashes

author

Gaewsky, James

abstract

Motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) are a worldwide public health concern, resulting in annual totals of approximately 1.24 million deaths and 20-50 million injured occupants. Real world crash reconstructions using finite element (FE) vehicle and human body models (HBMs) have the potential to elucidate injury mechanisms, predict injury risk, and evaluate injury mitigation system effectiveness, ultimately leading to a reduced risk of fatality and severe injury in MVCs. The purpose of the work presented herein was to create a novel framework for FE frontal MVC reconstruction and injury analysis considering two primary constraints: (1) a shortage of specific FE vehicle models and (2) uncertainty in the case occupant’s position immediately before the crash event.

subject

Finite Element

Injury Risk

Latin Hypercube

Occupant Position

THUMS

Variation

contributor

Stitzel, Joel D (committee chair)

Weaver, Ashley A (committee member)

Gayzik, F Scott (committee member)

date

2015-06-23T08:35:57Z (accessioned)

2017-06-22T08:30:09Z (available)

2015 (issued)

degree

Biomedical Engineering (discipline)

embargo

2017-06-22 (terms)

identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/57171 (uri)

language

en (iso)

publisher

Wake Forest University

type

Thesis