Occupant simulator preprocessors:​ parameter studies made easy

Sieveka, Edwin M.; Pikey, Walter D.; Hollowell, William T.

Affiliations

¹University of Virginia Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

²U.S. Dept. of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Abstract

The use of computer simulated parameter studies provides a cost-effective means for examining a wide range of accident scenarios and vehicle designs. To facilitate these studies the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is developing preprocessor programs for several occupant-environment crash simulators. Given an existing input file, these preprocessors automate the task of generating the many, perhaps thousands, of additional files that are used in large parameter studies. This paper describes two such programs, PADPREP and MVMAPREP. PADPREP creates new input files for the PADS simulator which is used to study driver/steering-assembly interactions. MVMAPREP supports the MVMA-2D program, which is used for passenger and pedestrian simulations. In addition to describing program use, demonstration parameter studies generated by each preprocessor are included as examples.

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