Objective: Analyses of crash data have shown that older, obese, and/or female occupants
have a higher risk of injury in frontal crashes compared to the rest of the population. The …

Despite safety advances, thoracic injuries in motor vehicle crashes remain a significant
source of morbidity and mortality, and rib fractures are the most prevalent of thoracic injuries …

To enable analysis of the risk of occupants sustaining rib fractures in a crash, generic finite
element models of human ribs, one through twelve, were developed. The generic ribs …

The objective of this study was to use the finite element (FE) Global Human Body Model
Consortium (GHBMC) simplified mi Page 1 Abstract The objective of this study was to use the …

The use of standardized anthropomorphic test devices and test conditions prevent current
vehicle development and safety assessments from capturing the breadth of variability …

The biomechanical response of a human rib cage to cardiopulmonary resuscitation
maneuvers was investigated by means of finite element simulations. We analyzed the effect …

Variability in body shape and soft tissue geometry have the potential to affect the body's
interaction with automotive safety systems. In this study, we developed a methodology to …

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

Objective To optimize the components of restraint systems for protecting obese (BMI= 35
kg/m2) and normal BMI (BMI= 25) human body models (HBMs) in frontal crash simulations …

This study developed a framework to generate injury prediction functions in order to
evaluate the safety of occupants in traffic accidents, using human body model simulations to …