Abdominal response to steering wheel loading

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Nusholtz, Guy¹; Kaiker, Patricia¹

Abdominal response to steering wheel loading

Proceedings of the 14th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV)

Affiliations

¹Chrysler Motor Corporation, United States
Abstract

Occupant kinematics in automotive collisions can result in loading of the abdominal region for the unbelted or belted occupant. Abdominal response may affect kinematics of other body regions and it is therefore, important for determining the response of an occupant during a crash. Toward this end, the impact response of the thoraco-abdominal region was investigated utilizing un-embalmed repressurized human cadavers subjected to frontal impact with a non-deforming steering wheel lower rim. The focus of this research program was on the response of the soft-tissue in the abdominal region as well as the kinematic response of the lower section of the thoracic cage. This paper will describe a unique method, which merges accelerometer and film date, to determine abdominal response to impact loading conditions. In addition, abdominal response corridors will also be presented.

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