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Automotive Engineering ›› 2024, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (3): 509-519.doi: 10.19562/j.chinasae.qcgc.2024.03.015

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Simulation of Pedestrian-Ground Contact Injury in Vehicle-Pedestrian Collisions and Robustness Analysis of Protection Methods

Tiefang Zou(),Zhiqi Liu,Xiangting Yuan,Taishan Cao,Zhuzi Liu   

  1. School of Automotive and Mechanical Engineering,Changsha University of Science & Technology,Changsha 410114
  • Received:2023-08-01 Revised:2023-09-29 Online:2024-03-25 Published:2024-03-18
  • Contact: Tiefang Zou E-mail:tiefang@163. com

Abstract:

In pedestrian-vehicle accidents, pedestrians mainly suffer injuries from contact with vehicles and the ground. A large number of previous studies have validated multi-body pedestrian models during the vehicle contact phase, but few have validated them during the ground contact phase. In this paper, four PC-Crash pedestrian models for predicting pedestrian motion and ground contact after vehicle impact are evaluated. Comparison of HIC injuries by vehicle and ground contact with data from six cadaveric experiments in recent studies shows that among them the PC2014 pedestrian model predicts pedestrian head injuries well, with an average error of 6.07% and 5.85% for vehicle and ground contact HIC, respectively, which suggests that the PC2014 pedestrian model can be used to reproduce pedestrian-vehicle crashes and to develop future ground contact injury protection countermeasures. The robustness study of the controlled braking protection method shows that under the disturbance of three pedestrian postures (running, walking and emergency), the average HIC reduction ratio is 63.2%, 57.9% and 67.8%, respectively, which indicates that the controlled braking protection method has a very good resistance to the disturbance of pedestrian postures. Further analysis of pedestrian injuries in different postures reveals that there is a significant difference between the three sequences of gait. The controlled braking protection method has better resistance to the disturbance of pedestrian postures under the emergency gait; while in the running gait sequence, the control brake protection method often has the lowest head-to-ground collision injuries, which suggests that the effect of different postures needs to be taken into account in the protection of pedestrians by the use of the control brake protection method, in order to further improve the effectiveness of the ground injury protection of the control brake protection method.

Key words: PC-Crash pedestrian model, vehicle control brake, pedestrian ground injury, pedestrian posture perturbation, robustness