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Pregnant driver injury investigations in oblique crashes

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posted on 2017-06-30, 09:42 authored by Volkan Esat, Serpil Acar
Kinetics and kinematics of an oblique impact are different when compared to frontal collisions. The objective of this research is to simulate various oblique crash scenarios that pregnant drivers may experience by using the computational pregnant occupant model, ‘Expecting’ and investigate potential injuries that pregnant drivers may suffer. Half-sine acceleration pulses representing crash speeds 15kph to 45kph are used in the simulations. Oblique impact simulations are conducted both from the nearside and the farside (offside) of the vehicle. The placental abruption and hence fetus mortality risks during oblique crashes are compared with the full-frontal impact cases.

Funding

This work was supported the EPSRC and IMCRC (Innovative Manufacturing and Construction Research Centre) of Loughborough University.

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Published in

International Journal of Crashworthiness

Volume

17

Issue

4

Pages

424 - 429

Citation

ESAT, V. and ACAR, B.S., 2012. Pregnant driver injury investigations in oblique crashes. International Journal of Crashworthiness, 17(4), pp. 424-429.

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© Taylor & Francis

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2012

Notes

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Crashworthiness on 16 Mar 2012, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13588265.2012.664008

ISSN

1358-8265

eISSN

1754-2111

Language

  • en

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