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Car seat design to improve rear-impact protection

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posted on 2014-08-13, 13:26 authored by Selcuk Himmetoglu, Memis Acar, Kaddour Bouazza-Marouf, Andrew Taylor
This study presents car seat concepts which are designed to mitigate whiplash injuries through coordinated motion of seat components for a wide range of crash severities. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed car seat concepts, computational multibody models of a generic car seat and a biofidelic 50th-percentile male human model for rear impact are developed. A number of car seat concepts are shown to reduce the risk of whiplash injuries by utilizing head restraint support and energy-absorbing features, which remain reusable after impact.

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School

  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS PART D-JOURNAL OF AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERING

Volume

225

Issue

D4

Pages

441 - 459 (19)

Citation

HIMMETOGLU, S. ... (et al.), 2011. Car seat design to improve rear-impact protection. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part D, Journal of Automobile Engineering, 225 (4), pp. 441-459.

Publisher

SAGE (© the authors)

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publication date

2011

ISSN

0954-4070

eISSN

2041-2991

Language

  • en

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