Development of an alternative frangible knee element for a pedestrian safety legform

Dunmore, Martin; Brooks, Richard; McNally, Donal S.; Madeley, N. Jane

Affiliations

¹School of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Nottingham

²Institute of Biomechanics, University of Nottingham

³Department of Orthopaedics, University Hospitals of Leicester

Abstract and keywords

The design of a novel four ligament instrumented knee element for pedestrian safety testing is described. Knee shear and bending tolerances from PMHS (Post Mortem Human Surrogate) testing in the literature and current pedestrian safety testing procedures are considered for comparative purposes. Validation at component level of individual textile ligaments is compared to reported biological data for ligaments tested in tension. Testing and validation of the knee element in shear and bending at quasi-static rates is presented. The knee element offers an instrumented lightweight biofidelic frangible kneeform which is able to predict failure in individual ligaments and measure knee bending and shear displacement.

Keywords: Pedestrians; Knees; Frangible; Legform

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