Car passengers are frequently sitting in non-nominal postures and are able to perform a
wide range of activities since they are not limited by tasks related to vehicle control, contrary …

Presently, most passive safety tests are performed with a precisely specified seat position
and carefully seated ATD (anthropomorphic test device) dummies. Facing the development …

Embedding ergonomics in the design process is often delayed as it requires building
physical prototypes and human subject data collection. This causes retrofitting or expensive …

The injury risk in a vehicle crash can depend on occupant specific factors. Virtual crash
testing using finite element human body models (HBMs) to represent occupant variability …

Objective The study determined the seatbelt pre-pretensioner force needed and the time
required to reposition average male front-seat passengers from forward-leaning to upright …

The sensitivity of occupant kinematic and kinetic crash responses to anthropometric and
seat adjustment variation was investigated by performing frontal-and side-impact …

Objective The objective of the current study was to increase scientific understanding of rear-
seat passenger seating position, postures, CRS use, and belt use through a naturalistic …

Introduction Autonomous vehicles will give vehicle drivers greater freedom to engage in
other activities while the vehicle is in operation that will lead to changes in the seating …

Objective Pre-pretensioner (PPT) seatbelts have been found to be effective in controlling
vehicle occupants' motion response to disturbances in optimally positioned occupants, but it …

The two objectives are to demonstrate technical feasibility for an advanced 3-point seatbelt
system incorporating double lap belt pre-tensioning and load-limiting and to evaluate its …