Assessment of an innovative seat belt with independent control of the shoulder and lap portions using THOR tests, the THUMS model, and PMHS tests

B Pipkorn, FJ López-Valdés, O Juste-Lorente… - Traffic injury …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives: The objective of this study was to determine the potential chest injury benefits
and influence on occupant kinematics of a belt system with independent control of the …

Biofidelity Evaluation of the THOR and Hybrid III 50th Percentile Male Frontal Impact Anthropomorphic Test Devices

D Parent, M Craig, K Moorhouse - 2017 - sae.org
The objective of this study is to present a quantitative comparison of the biofidelity of the
THOR and Hybrid III 50th percentile male ATDs. Quantitative biofidelity was assessed using …

Occupant injuries in light passenger vehicles—A NASS study to enable priorities for development of injury prediction capabilities of human body models

B Pipkorn, J Iraeus, M Lindkvist, P Puthan… - Accident Analysis & …, 2020 - Elsevier
To prioritize how the development of mathematical human body models for injury prediction
in crash safety analysis should be made, the most frequent injuries in the NASS CDS data …

Development of thoracic injury risk functions for the THOR ATD

GS Poplin, TL McMurry, JL Forman, J Ash… - Accident Analysis & …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Test Device for Human Occupant Restraint (THOR) 50th percentile male
anthropomorphic test device (ATD) aims to improve the ability to predict the risk of chest …

[PDF][PDF] Predicting real-world thoracic injury using THOR and hybrid III crash tests

ML Brumbelow, JS Jermakian, RA Arbelaez - IRCOBI Conference …, 2022 - ircobi.org
In frontal crashes, drivers restrained by a seat belt and airbag are at elevated risk of serious
thoracic injury compa Page 1 ML Brumbelow (mbrumbelow@iihs.org; +1-434-985-4600) is a …

Development, calibration, and validation of a head–neck complex of THOR mod kit finite element model

JB Putnam, JT Somers, CD Untaroiu - Traffic injury prevention, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction/Objective: In an effort to continually improve upon the design of the test device
for human occupant restraint (THOR) dummy, a series of modifications have recently been …

Chest injuries of elderly postmortem human surrogates (PMHSs) under seat belt and airbag loading in frontal sled impacts: Comparison to matching THOR tests

FJ Lopez-Valdes, K Mroz, A Eggers… - Traffic injury …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: The goal of the study was to develop experimental chest loading conditions that
would cause up to Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) 2 chest injuries in elderly occupants in …

A statistical geometrical description of the human liver for probabilistic occupant models

YC Lu, CD Untaroiu - Journal of biomechanics, 2014 - Elsevier
Realistic numerical assessments of liver injury risk for the entire occupant population require
incorporating inter-subject variations into numerical models. Statistical shape models of the …

NHTSA oblique crash test results: vehicle performance and occupant injury risk assessment in vehicles with small overlap countermeasures

J Saunders, D Parent, E Ames - … Conference on the Enhanced Safety of …, 2015 - trid.trb.org
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has been developing a
research test protocol representative of real-world injury potential in frontal offset oblique …

Analysis of occupant kinematics and dynamics in nearside oblique impacts

FJ López-Valdés, O Juste-Lorente… - Traffic injury …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
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 …