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 …

Occupant kinematics in simulated autonomous driving vehicle collisions: influence of seating position, direction and angle

Y Kitagawa, S Hayashi, K Yamada, M Gotoh - 2017 - sae.org
This two-part study analyzed occupant kinematics in simulated collisions of future automated
driving vehicles in terms of seating configuration. In part one, a frontal collision was …

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 …

Importance of the cervical capsular joint cartilage geometry on head and facet joint kinematics assessed in a Finite element neck model

MA Corrales, DS Cronin - Journal of Biomechanics, 2021 - Elsevier
Finite element human neck models (NMs) aim to predict neck response and injury at the
tissue level; however, contemporary models are most often assessed using global response …

[PDF][PDF] Dynamic cervical vertebral motion of female and male volunteers and analysis of its interaction with head/neck/torso behavior during low-speed rear impact

F Sato, T Nakajima, K Ono… - IRCOBI …, 2014 - publications.lib.chalmers.se
The purpose of this study was to clarify the characteristics of dynamic head/neck/torso and
cervical vertebral motion for females and males in a rear impact by reanalyzing two series of …

Dynamic kinematic responses of female volunteers in rear impacts and comparison to previous male volunteer tests

A Carlsson, A Linder, J Davidsson, W Hell… - Traffic injury …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives: The objective was to quantify dynamic responses of 50th percentile females in
rear impacts and compare to those from similar tests with males. The results will serve as a …

Motion of the head and neck of female and male volunteers in rear impact car-to-car impacts

A Carlsson, GP Siegmund, A Linder… - Traffic injury …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives: The objectives of this study were to quantify and compare dynamic motion
responses between 50th percentile female and male volunteers in rear impact tests. These …

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 …

ADSEAT–Adaptive seat to reduce neck injuries for female and male occupants

A Linder, S Schick, W Hell, M Svensson… - Accident Analysis & …, 2013 - Elsevier
Neck injuries sustained in low severity vehicle crashes are of worldwide concern and the
risk is higher for females than for males. The objective of the study was to provide guidance …