Experimental investigation of the effect of occupant characteristics on contemporary seatbelt payout behavior in frontal impacts.

CONCLUSIONS: The analysis indicated that the PMHS characteristics showed significant influence on the belt response, while the belt response obtained with the ATDs were more reproducible. The potentialcause included the occupant anthropometry, the body mass distribution and the relative motion among body segments specific to the population variance. This study provided a primary data source to understand the biomechanical interaction of the occupant with the restraint system. Further research is necessary to consider these effects in the computational studies and optimized design of the restraint system in a more realistic manner. PMID: 26376046 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research