On safety design of vehicle for protection of vulnerable road users: A review

X Lv, Z Xiao, J Fang, Q Li, F Lei, G Sun - Thin-Walled Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
Fatal and serious injuries of vulnerable road users (VRU) occur frequently in the events of
vehicle impact. Front-end crashworthiness of vehicle can considerably affect VRU injuries in …

Study of typical electric twowheelers pre-crash scenarios using K-medoids clustering methodology based on video recordings in China

D Pan, Y Han, Q Jin, H Wu, H Huang - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2021 - Elsevier
Crash safety of electric two-wheelers (ETWs) has been one of the most important safety
issues in China due to their high proportion of involvement in traffic accidents. Automated …

Evaluation of injury thresholds for predicting severe head injuries in vulnerable road users resulting from ground impact via detailed accident reconstructions

L Shi, Y Han, H Huang, J Davidsson… - … and modeling in …, 2020 - Springer
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of various head injury criteria and
associated risk functions in prediction of vulnerable road users (VRUs) severe head injuries …

Biomechanical response of head surrogate with and without the helmet

A Singh, D Kumar, S Ganpule - Journal of …, 2024 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Measurements of brain deformations under injurious loading scenarios are actively sought.
In this work, we report experimentally measured head kinematics and corresponding …

Probabilistic prediction of collisions between cyclists and vehicles based on uncertainty of cyclists' movements

D Pan, Y Han, Q Jin, J Kan, H Huang… - Transportation …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The uncertainty of cyclists' movements has a significant impact on predicting the risk of
collisions between cyclists and vehicles. The purpose of this study was to provide a method …

Certified motorcycle helmets: computational evaluation of the efficacy of standard requirements with finite element models

FAO Fernandes, RJ Alves de Sousa, M Ptak… - Mathematical and …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Every year, thousands of people die in the European Union as a direct result of road
accidents. Helmets are one of the most important types of personal safety gear. The ECE …

Investigation on the modeling and reconstruction of head injury accident using ABAQUS/Explicit

X Deng, Z Du, H Feng, S Wang, H Luo, Y Liu - Bioengineering, 2022 - mdpi.com
A process of modeling and reconstructing human head injuries involved in traffic crashes
based on ABAQUS/Explicit is presented in this paper. A high-fidelity finite element (FE) …

Effect of different helmets against ground impact based on the in-depth reconstruction of electric two-wheeler accidents

Y Han, Y He, D Pan, L Lin, Y Chen… - Computer methods in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Skull fracture and brain injury are frequent head injuries in electric two-wheeler (ETW)
accidents, and the type of helmet and impact conditions affect the effectiveness of the helmet …

Electric bicyclist injury severity during peak traffic periods: a random-parameters approach with heterogeneity in means and variances

T Zhu, Z Zhu, J Zhang, C Yang - International journal of environmental …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Accidents involving electric bicycles, a popular means of transportation in China during peak
traffic periods, have increased. However, studies have seldom attempted to detect the …

A damage model for the simulation of crack initiation and propagation in automotive windshield laminated glass structures

FAO Fernandes, RJA de Sousa… - International journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Accident reconstructions and numerical simulations are used to evaluate and improve
protective systems. Virtual testing and numerical methods can assist in the improvement …