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"Viva II" Virtual Vehicle Safety Assessment Step 2: Open Source Digital Human Body Models and Crash Testing   
The project follows the just finalised ViVA project and contains further development of the ViVA open source model. This includes e.g. active muscles, as well as continued testing and simulation activities to develop methodologies to bring in aspects of different size and gender in the development and evaluation of protection systems, focusing on whiplash injuries in rear-end collisions. The project is very important for SAFER HBM cluster.

• Duration: 2017-04-01  to 2019-09-30           
• Financer: Vinnova   
• Budget: 3,1 Mkr            
• Partners: VTI, Chalmers, Folksam and Volvo Cars       
• Project leader: Astrid Linder (VTI)       

"FFI- Crash2” Modelling crash behaviour in future lightweight composite vehicles, Step 2
The project follows FFI-Crash1, with the purpose of developing CAE for composites to become predictive, robust and efficient. FFI Crash2 is part of a cluster of projects that together build CAE skills for composite and safety development. This project also holds the role of continuing to build coordinated national development in the area. This is a very important project for the SAFER Composite cluster.  

• Financer: FFI   
• Budget: 8 994 000kr           
• Partners: Chalmers, SICOMP, Gestamp, Volvo Cars, AB Volvo, ÅF, Escenda, FS Dynamics, NEVS, DynaMore and MSC Software       
• Project leader: Martin Fagerström (Chalmers)       

Ductile composite
The project aims to create and validate material models for the 3D-reinforced composite (developed by Biteam) under mechanical stress.

• Duration: 2016-12-06 to 2019-12-31            
• Financer: Energimyndigheten   
• Budget: 8 228 000kr            
• Partners: Chalmers, KTH och Biteam + Volvo Cars       
• Project leader: Martin Fagerström (Chalmers)       

Assessment of Passenger Safety in Future Vehicles
The aim is to answer the research question on how to assess the protection of the heterogeneous population of passengers in future car crashes. The purpose is to develop personalized restraints. Specifically, the project will achieve method developments based on enhancement of tools (physical and numerical human substitutes), and apply these methods to deliver novel protection principles. User-studies and real-world crash-data will identify Use-cases. Existing tools and potential needs for improvement are evaluated and addressed. For some selected use-cases, assessment methods are developed deriving at protection principles enabling personalized restraints. This project covers those using the seatbelt as primary restraint (4 years up to elderly). This is an important project for the SAFER HBM cluster and continuation of the Småfolk-cluster.

• Duration: 2017-06-15 - 2020-08-31            
• Financer: FFI
• Budget: 17 656 000 kr            
• Partners: Volvo Cars, Autoliv & Chalmers           
• Project leader: Lotta Jakobsson (Volvo Cars)