Project

Pedestrian fatalities comprise a significant portion of total traffic fatalities. The head is the most fatally injured body region. There are countermeasures for pedestrian impacts on the market today. Such countermeasures are automatic emergency braking (AEB) and pedestrian airbags. However, there is a need for complementing countermeasures and evaluation of them. This project is a direct continuation of the previous FFI project named “Human Body Model with Active Muscles and Detailed Head for Pedestrian Protection”. The previous project resulted in a first version of the combined THUMS/KTH model including an improved neck and head. The previous project also resulted in a broadened knowledge that raised a number of questions and ideas for future work needed to finalize an effective production tool for the industry. There is a need for a method that can be used with the human body models to predict injuries. For industrial use, such a method has to be developed into a user friendly tool. Therefore the main aim of the project is to finalize the development of a tool for head and neck injury prediction with state-of-the-art human body models.