Effects of pedestrian pre‐crash reactions on crash outcomes during multi‐body simulations

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Soni, Anurag¹; Robert, Thomas¹; Beillas, Philippe¹

Effects of pedestrian pre‐crash reactions on crash outcomes during multi‐body simulations

Proceedings of the 2013 International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Injury

Affiliations

¹Université de Lyon, F‐69622, Lyon, France; IFSTTAR, UMR_T9406, LBMC, Université Lyon 1
Abstract and keywords

This study aimed to evaluate the effect of pedestrian pre‐crash reactions on injury parameters predicted by simulation. Forty initial conditions arising from simulated accident situations in a volunteer experimental study were used as inputs in car‐topedestrian multi‐body impact simulations. Injury parameters resulting from simulations were then compared with that of a commonly used walking posture. It was found that independent of the choice of crash avoidance strategies, the position of the struck‐side leg was having profound effects on the injury predictions and that the existing passive safety procedures were overall a good representation (90th percentile) of the real world pedestrian accident situations.

Keywords: car‐to‐pedestrian impact, multi‐body simulations, pedestrian pre‐crash reactions
Links

URL: http://www.ircobi.org/downloads/irc13/pdf_files/92.pdf

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