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Automotive Engineering ›› 2021, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (9): 1360-1366.doi: 10.19562/j.chinasae.qcgc.2021.09.013

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Research on Head Protection of Child on Safety Seat in Side Collision

Lü Mengkuan1,3,Xin Yang1,Shucai Xu2(),Binbing Huang3,Shaopeng Li3,Peng Huo1,Yongliang Bian1   

  1. 1.College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering,Hebei Agricultural University,Baoding 071000
    2.Tsinghua University,State Key Laboratory of Automotive Safety and Energy,Beijing 100084
    3.Suzhou Automobile Research Institute(Xiangcheng),Tsinghua University,Suzhou 215134
  • Received:2021-05-18 Revised:2021-06-11 Online:2021-09-25 Published:2021-09-26
  • Contact: Shucai Xu E-mail:xushc@tsinghua.edu.cn

Abstract:

According to the requirements of European child occupant restraint system regulation (ECE R129), a sled seat restraint system model is established, with a speed curve specified in the regulation applied to simulate the head injury of child occupants on rear-row seat in a side collision accident. Through the sled test of side impact, the effectiveness of the finite element model built is verified. By compression test, the mechanical properties of expanded polypropylene (EPP) with a foaming rate of 30 times are measured and it is determine to use the material card MAT83 with strain rate effect to simulate the mechanical response of EPP headrest under collision conditions. With the 3 ms head acceleration and HPC of child occupants as evaluation indicators, the protective effects on child occupant head of EPP and ordinary materials are comparatively analyzed. The results show that compared with ordinary material, by using EPP headrest, the HPC and 3 ms head acceleration of Q3 dummy model is lowered by 24.9% and 8.1% respectively, effectively reducing the injury of child’s head in car side collision.

Key words: child safety seat, EPP, side collision, head injury