Rear seat adult occupant protection is receiving increased attention from the automotive
safety community. Recent anthropomorphic test device (ATD) studies have suggested that it …

Female, elderly, and obese individuals are at greater risk than male, young, and non-obese
individuals for neck injury in otherwise equivalent automotive collisions. Developing safety …

Quantifying the kinematics of the human spine during a frontal impact is a challenge due to
the multi-degree-of-freedom structure of the vertebral column. This papers reports on a …

No experimental data exist quantifying the force-deformation behavior of the pediatric chest
when subjected to non-impact, dynamic loading from a diagonal belt or a distributed loading …

The Hybrid III 6-year-old ATD has been benchmarked against adult-scaled component level
tests but the lack of biomechanical data hinders the effectiveness of the procedures used to …

Objectives: The objective of this study was to present, compare, and discuss the kinematic
response of children and child anthropomorphic test devices (ATDs) during emergency …

Objective: Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of injury and mortality for children.
Mitigation of these injuries requires biofidelic anthropomorphic test devices (ATDs) to design …

Thoracic injuries continue to be a major health concern in motor vehicle crashes. Previous
thoracic research has focused on 50th percentile males and utilized scaling techniques to …

A growing body of literature points out the relevance of the thoracic spine dynamics in
understanding the thorax-restraint interaction as well as in determining the kinematics of the …

Objective: The objective of this article is to analyze the kinematics and dynamics of
restrained postmortem human surrogates (PMHS) exposed to a nearside oblique impact …