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Automotive Engineering ›› 2023, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (10): 1965-1974.doi: 10.19562/j.chinasae.qcgc.2023.10.017

Special Issue: 车身设计&轻量化&安全专题2023年

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Development and Validation of an Injury Biomimetic Model of 5th Percentile Female Occupant Exhibiting Chinese Anthropometry

Haiyan Li1(),Jing Hu1,Lijuan He1,Linghua Ran2,Lü Wenle1,Shihai Cui1,Shijie Ruan1   

  1. 1.International Research Association on Emerging Automotive Safety Technology,Tianjin University of Science and Technology,Tianjin 300222
    2.China National Institute of Standardization,Beijing 100191
  • Received:2023-02-26 Revised:2023-03-23 Online:2023-10-25 Published:2023-10-23
  • Contact: Haiyan Li E-mail:lihaiyan@tust.edu.cn

Abstract:

For the research on intelligent vehicle safety and digital assessment technology in the future, in order to effectively predict and evaluate the kinematic responses, biomechanical responses and injury mechanisms of the small size female in traffic accidents, an injury biomimetic model of the 5th percentile Chinese female physiological characteristics is developed with independent intellectual property based on CT images of a volunteer, named TUST IBMs F05-O. Five groups blunt impact cadaver tests on the thorax and abdomen of small-sized female are reconstructed using four regional loading methods and the validity of the model is evaluated by the force-deflection curve and the biomechanical response data. At the same time, the simulation results from the whole-body model is compared with the results from the thoracic-abdominal partial model under the same loading conditions to analyze the influence of limbs on the stiffness responses of the chest and abdomen. The results show that for the five groups of cadaver tests with different impact velocity and mass, the predicted results by the model are consistent with the cadaver test data, proving the high bio-fidelity of the model. Therefore, it can be applied to the simulation calculation of the occupant protection test of automotive safety assessments in order to reduce the development cost. The thoracoabdominal stiffness of the whole-body model is slightly larger than that of the thoracic-abdominal partial model because of the influence of limbs kinematic responses, which proves that the whole-body model is more accurate to simulate and evaluate the injury than the partial model. The TUST IBMs F05-O can predict and assess quantitatively the injury of human tissues and organs to study the injury mechanisms of small size female occupants with Chinese physical characteristics, which can provide basic data and technical support for vehicle digital assessment technology, vehicle active and passive safety integration research and the development of the intelligent vehicle cockpit safety protection devices.

Key words: Chinese 5th percentile female, occupant, injury biomimetic model, biomechanical response, injury mechanism