Event

Welcome to a SAFER Thursday online Skype seminar March 26th at 11.30-12.30!

The online seminar week 13 is hosted by Lotta Jakobsson, Adj. Prof., PhD & Senior Technical Leader, Injury Prevention Volvo Cars Safety Centre. Lotta is also Research Area Director for Human Body Protection at SAFER. Lotta has invited two speakers, Emma Larsson PhD student at Chalmers & Corina Klug, PhD, Assistant Professor at the Vehicle Safety Institute of Graz University of Technology in Austria. In her research, Corina focuses on Human Body Models and their application for safety assessments. 
 
The active SAFER-HBM in evasive manoeuvres; prediction of occupant kinematics
Speaker: Emma Larsson, PhD student, Chalmers University of Technology

To study occupant interaction with restraint systems during evasive manoeuvres, human body models have been fitted with active musculature. The SAFER-HBM v9 includes active neck and lumbar muscles capable of responding to horizontal plane loading. In this study, the active model capabilities were extended further, and results from the updated model was compared to volunteer responses in six different evasive manoeuvre setups. The study was performed within the A-HBM 4 project and presented at IRCOBI 2019.
                 
Standardised Safety Assessments with Human Body Models – Chances, Challenges and Problem-Solving Approaches
Speaker: Corina Klug, PhD, Assistant Professor at the Vehicle Safety Institute of Graz University of Technology, Austria
The virtual assessment of safety systems has multiple advantages: vehicles can be assessed for a wider range of the population and safety systems can be also tested in a variety of scenarios instead of having only single load cases which can be tested in a laboratory. However, when introducing virtual testing for standardised consumer information assessments or even homologation, the integrity and comparability of simulation results have to be ensured.The assessment of active bonnets is currently the only Euro NCAP assessment in which virtual testing with Human Body Models (FE models of the human body) is applied. A procedure was developed at TU Graz within the CoHerent project to certify the Human Body Models to improve comparability and trust in results.
The talk will focus on the challenges that were identified during the development of this procedure. Problem-solving approaches, visions and ideas for future work will be discussed.

Register below no later than 10.00 on Tuesday, March 24th, 2020.

Due to circumstances concerning Covid-19, all SAFER Thursday seminars will be held exclusively online, via Skype, until further notice. We hope that many of you will join, it is important that we continue to work together to save lives in traffic! For obvious reasons no lunch will be served. If you want to join we kindly ask you to register below anyway, this will make it easier for us to plan accordingly. We are aware that all online meeting solutions currently are experiencing technical issues due to a sharp increase in users, but we’ll go ahead as best we can!