Road safety: the average male as a norm in vehicle occupant crash safety assessment

A Linder, MY Svensson - Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This review addresses how women and men are represented in regulatory tests conducted
to assess adult occupant safety in vehicles. Injury statistics show that protection in the event …

[HTML][HTML] Review of average sized male and female occupant models in European regulatory safety assessment tests and European laws: Gaps and bridging …

A Linder, W Svedberg - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2019 - Elsevier
There are two parts to the aim of this study. The first part comprised reviewing how men and
women are represented in regulatory tests conducted to assess adult occupant safety in …

Optimization of female head–neck model with active reflexive cervical muscles in low severity rear impact collisions

IPA Putra, J Iraeus, F Sato, MY Svensson… - Annals of biomedical …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract ViVA Open Human Body Model (HBM) is an open-source human body model that
was developed to fill the gap of currently available models that lacked the average female …

[PDF][PDF] The analysis of an individual difference in human skeletal alignment in seated posture and occupant behavior using HBMs

T Izumiyama, N Nishida, H Iwanaga, X Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ircobi.org
To reduce fatalities or serious injuries, the object of this study was to research skeletal
alignment in an automotive seat and clarify the differentiation by the factors of age, gender …

Effect of muscle pre‐tension and pre‐impact neck posture on the kinematic response of the cervical spine in simulated low‐speed rear impacts

MA Correia, MA Corrales… - … Journal for Numerical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Computational human body models (HBMs) can identify potential injury pathways not easily
accessible through experimental studies, such as whiplash induced injuries. However …

Accident analysis to support the development of strategies for the prevention of brain injuries in car crashes

J Antona-Makoshi, K Mikami, M Lindkvist… - Accident Analysis & …, 2018 - Elsevier
This study estimated the frequency and risk of Moderate-to-Maximal traumatic brain injuries
sustained by occupants in motor vehicle crashes in the US. National Automotive Sampling …

Male and female cervical spine biomechanics and anatomy: implication for scaling injury criteria

N Yoganandan, CR Bass, L Voo… - Journal of …, 2017 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
There is an increased need to develop female-specific injury criteria and anthropomorphic
test devices (dummies) for military and automotive environments, especially as women take …

Age-related changes in thoracic skeletal geometry of elderly females

SA Holcombe, SC Wang, JB Grotberg - Traffic injury prevention, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: Both females and the elderly have been identified as vulnerable populations with
increased injury and mortality risk in multiple crash scenarios. Particularly in frontal impacts …

Design and Evaluation of the Initial 50th Percentile Female Prototype Rear Impact Dummy, BioRID P50F–Indications for the need of an additional dummy size

A Carlsson, J Davidsson, A Linder… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The objective of this study was to present the design of a prototype rear impact crash test
dummy, representing a 50th percentile female, and compare its performance to volunteer …

An average female head-neck finite element model with reflexive neck muscles

IPA Putra - 2020 - search.proquest.com
Several factors potentially contribute to the risk of whiplash injuries; one of them is the neck
muscle activities. Muscle activities in the neck have been shown to influence the head-neck …