Project

The aim of this project is to evaluate and improve a prototype female-size rear impact crash test dummy (BioRID 50F). The prototype dummy was developed at Chalmers in the EU_Adseat project with the goal to create a loading device that could test the seat-back and head-restreaint response in rear end impacts. In EU-Adseat we saw that current car seats respond very differently to a female size dummy compared to the standard average male size BioRID II dummy. The differences may explain why most reactive head-restraint type of whiplash protection systems offer far less improvement for females compared to males. The current project is an attempt to, with a limited budget, improve the prototype BioRID 50F to give it enough bioifidelity to enable the assessment of injury criteria in the dummy to, not only assess the seat-back response, but also to give an estimate of the female whiplash injury risk of each car seat.