Biofidelity evaluation of THOR 5th percentile female ATD

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Wang, Z. Jerry¹; Lee, Ellen²; Bolte, IV, John¹; Below, John¹; Loeber, Brian¹; Ramachandra, Rakshit⁴; Greenlees, Breanna¹; Guck, Daniel¹

Biofidelity evaluation of THOR 5th percentile female ATD

Proceedings of the 2018 International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Injury

Affiliations

¹Humanetics Innovative Solutions

²National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

³Ohio State University

⁴IBRC of Ohio State University
Abstract and keywords

Three prototype anthropomorphic test devices (ATD) were fabricated in order to evaluate the biofidelity of a newly design THOR 5th percentile female ATD [1]. This paper focuses on the biofidelity responses derived from testing one of these ATDs. There were a total of twenty‐three biofidelity test conditions that included the head, neck, shoulder, thorax, abdomen, knee‐thigh‐hip complex, and lower extremity [2]. Three repeated tests were conducted on a single ATD for each test condition. The biofidelity was objectively scored in accordance with NHTSA’s Biofidelity Ranking System (BioRank) [3]. The BioRank score of each body region was less than 2.0, corresponding to “good” biofidelity and a few less than 1.0, corresponding to “excellent” biofidelity. The overall BioRank score of the dummy was 1.28, which corresponds to “good” biofidelity.

Keywords: Anthropomorphic test device, biofidelity, BioRank, THOR 5th percentile female, anthropometry
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