Modelling of head impact on laminated glass windshields

Mukherjee, S.; Chawla, A.; Mahajan, P.; Mohan, D.; Mane, N. S.; Singh, M.; Sakurai, M.; Tamura, Y.

Affiliations

¹Transportation Research & Injury Prevention Programme, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 1100 16, INDIA

²Japan Automobile Research Institute, JAPAN

Abstract and keywords

The windshield of a car is impacted by pedestrians and riders of two-wheeled vehicles (with or without helmets) in a large proportion of road traffic crashes. This paper reports work on development of a FEM model in PAMCRASH for head windshield impact from outside the car.. This includes a helmet mode and a windshield model. Helmet drop test data, impact data for a standard headform without helmet impacting a windshield and impact data for headform with helmet impacting the windshield is used to verify the model.

Keywords: Windshield; Finite Element Method; Helmets

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