Title :
Method to Study the Causes of Child Occupant Injuries in Traffic Accident
Author :
Wang, Hongyan ; Cao, Qingqing
Author_Institution :
Automotive Coll., Tongji Univ., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
Unrestrainted child occupants are in great danger of traffic injuries. Accident reconstruction is an effective method to study the causes of child occupant injuries in traffic accident. On the basis of “mean acceleration method”, a typical traffic accident with child occupant is simulated by PC-Crash and MADYMO. Child occupant movements and injury risks during the impact are well performed. A qualitative analysis on the causes of child occupant injuries in this accident is carried out and described in this paper.
Keywords :
injuries; road accidents; road traffic; traffic engineering computing; MADYMO; PC-Crash; accident reconstruction; child occupant injury; child occupant movement; injury risk; mean acceleration method; traffic accident; traffic injury; unrestrainted child occupant; Acceleration; Accidents; Injuries; Load modeling; Thorax; Vehicle crash testing; Vehicles; Child occupant injuries; accident reconstruction; child occupant; occupant motion;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering (WCSE), 2010 Second World Congress on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9287-9
DOI :
10.1109/WCSE.2010.36
