Project

The overall purpose is to create and align a set of criteria and measures, including injury risk curves when possible, to be used with human body models (eg. THUMS) enabling prediction of injury. This is of high importance for industrial application. The benefits of a human model, being anatomically superior as well better suited for omnidirectional movements, will be highlighted. Hence, injury criteria for omnidirectional usage will be prioritized. Also, methodologies for establishing injury criteria as well as the development/definition of injury criteria and risk curves will be covered. Several ongoing SAFER projects address the topic of injury prediction using HBM. This project will function as a discussion platform joining the results from several different ongoing SAFER projects into applied phase. As a complement to the ongoing projects, a special sub-study study will be performed developing omni-directional chest injury criteria. For this purpose, unique data from University of Virginia (UVA) on lateral chest injury data will be purchased and further developed aligning into ongoing SAFER chest injury projects with the aim to derive at omnidirectional chest injury criteria.